The House The main base text of the, which gives Congress the power to bar criminal proceedings in the (Supreme Court) against deputies and senators, with broad support from the Bolsonaro PL parties and votes for a PT minority.
House’s largest bench, with 88 deputies, the PL had 83 votes in favor – 94% of the caption in the House. Another five parliamentarians of the acronym did not vote.
In total, there were 353 votes in favor and 134 against, in addition to abstention, for the text sponsored by Centrão as a reaction to dozens of investigations on NO deviation. There will still be a second round vote later this Tuesday. Then the text goes to the Senate.
Of the most strong parties in the centrão, the Republican bench was the one that most supported PEC, with 93.3% of favorable votes. Then, about 90% of PP and União Brasil parliamentarians voted to approve the text in the first round.
About 18% of the PT bench votes were favorable to the text – 1 of the party’s 67 deputies supported PEC, against 51 votes for rejection. Another four deputies did not participate.
The PSD had a larger division, with 55% of the favorable votes on the 45 parliamentarians bench. The party was manifesting against the proposal, and guided in the plenary for rejection. This position was a guidance by party president Gilberto Kassab, who in an interview said he considered the “inadmissible” proposal. “This impossibility that the judiciary opens a lawsuit if I have no authorization, I am radically against,” he said.
PEC changes the constitution to expand the special forum and protect parliamentarians not only in relation to criminal investigations, but also opens a breach in the civil area ,. The text of what the original established in the 1988 Constitution and which due to popular pressure against impunity.
Deputy Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG) also voted against PEC. It was in his management in the presidency of the House in 2021 that Congress changed the Constitution to allow the processes without the need to endorse the house. He released a position for rejection, but did not appear to speak. The PSDB had the same number (6) of favorable and contrary votes to the PEC, as well as a parliamentarian who did not vote.
The MDB had also indicated that it would help to overthrow the proposal. The party president, Whale Rossi (SP), even posted on social networks to be against any type of armor or change in the forum. He, in fact, voted against, but his party guided in favor.
Deputy Hildo Rocha (MA), vice-leader of the party in the House, came to Three weeks ago it was against the risk of contamination of Congress for organized crime. “It’s something to have bandit there in the chamber, fill with the CCP and Red Command class,” he criticized at the time.
This Tuesday, however, Rocha was one of the 35th of the MDB to vote in favor. The party had 83.3% support for PEC. “I did this because the leader asked me, for the unity of the party. The text also improved, was closer to the 1988 Constitution,” he said.
Today the special forum of deputies and senators concerns only investigations and processes related to crimes committed in the exercise of the mandate and for him. There is no forum in the civil area.
The new attempted voting on Tuesday occurs amid pressure from pockets and part of the centron to approve an amnesty to those convicted of scammer acts, including former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
If Centrão previously sought support from the former president’s allies in the failed attempted voting at the end of August, there are now conversations with governors in exchange for support so that there is no approval of a wide amnesty, as the pockets want.
