The Minister (Secretariat of Institutional Relations) meets with government ministers () who are part of the center-right parties on Monday (8) to discuss strategies that can curb the progress in the project that gives amnesty to the convicts of the January 8 coup attacks.
Negotiations around the proposal advanced last week in response to the beginning of the judgment at the former president’s Supreme Court (STF), defendant in the coup plot, and involved parties from Centrão and the governor of, ().
Tarcisio is appointed by politicians in this group as the preferred candidate to face Lula, and there is pressure on Bolsonaro to make the governor his political successor. The idea, according to the former president’s allies, is to be able to advance with an amnesty proposal after its eventual conviction and thus take it out of prison, but maintaining its ineligibility.
The meeting takes place this Monday morning, at Planalto Palace, and should gather ministers who were nominated for the Esplanade by center parties and who are acting closer to the party benches in Congress. According to one of them he told the report, the idea is that the meeting will serve to align a collective performance of the ministers on this subject and other government issues in the legislature.
An assistant from Lula also says that the meeting should serve to be a coordination space of this performance of the ministers, as well as a moment for them to bring the feeling of the courses. In the Planalto, the orientation is opposed to amnesty, and this is what Gleisi should reinforce the other ministers, demanding from them to the deputies and senators of their respective acronyms.
Ministers of MDB, PSD, and Republicans are expected.
In addition to the PL, Centrão parties began to press the mayor (Republicans-PB) to bring the theme to the plenary. The – which was interpreted by politicians as a signal that he prepares the ground for this vote.
Last week, and members of the two acronyms began to defend a broader amnesty that embraced to the former president. Together, the two parties, among other positions.
Already the president of, (União Brasil-AP), without inclusion of upstairs. PL leader in the House, Sostenes Cavalcante (RJ), in turn, and forgives crimes since the fake news inquiry in 2019.
Members of the Planalto Palace began to criticize negotiations and said that the federal government will act to prevent the proposal from advancing the House. , Lula himself stated in conversations that the approval of this project would mean a surrender to the president of, who launched an offensive and imposed economic sanctions on Brazil in response to the Supreme trial.
In an interview last week, Gleisi stated that the government does not even consider the proposal to be voted. “There is still the urgent decree that has to be analyzed by the house and then it will be based. I hope the urgency will be defeated and we will work for it.”
A politician alongside conversations says the government’s number 1 mission is to prevent the issue from being taken to the plenary and will work to reduce pressure under motta. Lula’s allies say that by prioritizing the amnesty over other topics that have popular appeal, the mayor would be empowering the same group that obstructed sessions of the house in a rebellion in August. They also claim that the vote on popular themes could be important to the image of the House and Motta himself.
It is expected that the meeting also addresses other topics of government interest in the Legislature, including the proposal that gives exemption from IR (Income Tax) to those who earn up to R $ 5,000, considered the main agenda of the Planalto, and the PEC (Proposed Amendment to the Constitution) of Public Security.
According to a government member, the announcement of the Government’s Union and PP landing should also be treated at the meeting. The tone by auxiliaries of Lula and Government parliamentarians is what was expressed by Gleisi last week. The minister said, in reaction to the decision of the parties, that no one is obliged to stay, but whoever remains in petista management “should be committed to President Lula and the main guidelines that this government defends.”
