The PT spoke against the PEC (Proposed Amendment to the Constitution) of the armor, but 12 parliamentarians in the first round. The text against deputies and senators without the approval of Congress, determines that congressmen arrests will be decided on secret voting and expands the privileged forum.
Among those who voted for are Odair Cunha (PT-MG)-which this week acts as a government leader in the House and is in the Federal Court of Audit), in an agreement with Centrão-, the president of the PT in Sao Paulo, Kiko Celeguim, and the four representatives of the party in Piauí: Dr. Francisco, Flávio Nogueira, Florentino Neto and Merlong Solano.
Also voted in favor of Deputy Jilmar Tatto (SP), one of the PT’s national vice-presidents, the two of Pará (Airton Faleiro and Dilvanda Faro), Alfredinho (SP), and the miners Leonardo Monteiro and Paulo Guedes.
The president of, (-PB), and parliamentarians of the centrão pressured the party to endorse the proposal, arguing that a contrary position would be harmful to the government and priority projects for the President (PT)-as the MP (Provisional Measure) that.
In addition, Motta works in an alternative text to the broad and unrestricted amnesty for those of state, such as former President (). The intention is to reduce penalties, but without forgiving the crimes. Mayor’s allies warned the PT that he opposed PEC would create bad in the amnesty discussion.
They also complained about the campaign of petistas on social networks against the vote by the Chamber of Armage to the deputies. As soon as Motta announced that this would be Tuesday’s agenda (16), party members began firing videos and memes with criticism of the text and arguing that it would help Bolsonaro escape from prison.
The government refrained from the vote and stated that it was an internal issue of Congress, which would not be positioned – as a PEC, which is promulgated by the legislature itself, with no possibility of presidential veto.
President Lula’s party, however, was one of the most active in the Plenary against PEC, alongside PSOL and Novo. Deputy Bohn Gass (PT-RS) argued that parliamentary immunity cannot be confused with impunity. “There is no justification so that, facing a crime committed by a parliamentarian, unlike the citizen, he has to have Congress authorization to have the investigation and punishment. This is not reasonable,” he criticized.
Deputy Rogério Correia (PT-MG) stated that the party would vote against “the banditry PEC” and warned of the infiltration of organized crime, such as the CCP (first command of the capital), in politics. “Not that those who will vote is bandit, but the bandit may hide here in the House, because the deputies, in a secret vote, can keep it,” he said.
Part of the PT, however, warned Motta in the late afternoon that there would be dissent, and that the party would give votes in favor. The priority, two petistas said after meeting with the mayor, is to defeat the broad amnesty, and the PEC “would be a secondary theme.” Of the 67 PT deputies, 12 were in favor, 51 voted against and four abstained.
The author of the proposal is the today Minister of Tourism of the Lula Government, who is a federal deputy licensed by Pará. He is charged by his party, União Brasil, to leave office until the end of the month, and presented to PEC in 2021, when the House was led by his ally, the former president (-al).
