PL questions Motta’s competence and resorts from veto to Eduardo as a leader in the Chamber

The PL leader in the House, Sostenes Cavalcante, presented on Tuesday an appeal against the decision of the president of the house, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), who barred the opposition strategy and.

In the document, Sostenes claims that, for the appointment for the position, only a communication to the Board of Directors, “without any decision” is required.

“If there is, exceptionally, doubt or alleged impediment, competence is collegiate (from the table), and never monocratic,” said the PL leader in the appeal to criticize the decision taken by Motta.

Motta’s measure occurred after the complaint filed by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) against Eduardo for coercion to the Federal Supreme Court (STF). The opposition intended the leadership function to shield the parliamentarian of plenary fouls while he remains in the United States indefinitely, taking advantage of what they understood to be a breach of the regiment and trying to preserve Eduardo’s mandate.

Eduardo has the number of faults registered equivalent to almost double his presence in deliberative sessions. Since the end of his license period, in July, he has recorded 23 unjustified absences, according to information from the House website, having been attended in only 13 sessions since the beginning of this year. Abstention was used as an argument by Motta to deny his nomination as leader of the minority.

The Constitution provides for the cancellation of parliamentarians who lack one third of the sessions of the house (33%) in the same year, except in case of “license or mission by the authorized”. The decision, however, is not automatic and should be made by decision of the Board of Directors. With the intention of freeing him from the loss of mandate, the opposition signaled last week that he would be nominated as the new leader of the minority, replacing Mrs Caroline de Toni (PL-SC).

– We will ask him to make speeches online. We have technologies for that, ”said from Toni last week.

The movement was celebrated at the time by Sostenes, who exhibited the document to the press and argued that there would be no regimental impediment.

– On March 5, 2015, the then Board of Directors, chaired by Eduardo Cunha, at the request of Mara Gabrilli, there was a change and most decided to return to the prerogative of registration in the electronic panel. This act is valid so far, ”he said.

Motta’s response came in the diary of the House today: “I rely, pursuant to the opinion of the General Secretariat of the Chamber of Deputies of 09/22/2025. The technical opinion pointed out that the exercise of the mandate is “inherently in person” and that, in the case of the leadership, the requirement is even greater. “The physical absence of the country’s parliamentarian prevents him from exercising prerogatives and duties essential to leadership, making his exercise merely symbolic and in disagreement with regimental rules.”

The General Secretariat also pointed out that Eduardo did not formally communicate his departure from Brazil, as determined by Article 228 of the Regiment, and that basic attributions of leader-such as guiding voting, referring requirements and participating in the College of Leaders-require presence in plenary. “All of these activities undoubtedly demand the physical presence of the parliamentarian,” concluded the opinion.