The PEC (Proposed Amendment to the Constitution) that restricts processes against congressmen, Senator Alessandro Vieira (MDB-SE), recommended in its opinion to the total rejection of the project. According to Vieira, PEC is unconstitutional and could turn the legislature into “safe shelter for criminals.”
A was, in a vote made by the box. The text stipulates that congressmen can only be prosecuted if there is approval by the legislature in a secret vote. It also extends the benefit to party presidents.
A. How it showed the Sheetagainst deputies who supported the bill even before the text formally arrived at the High House. , even as a way of responding to last weekend.
The project is on the agenda of Wednesday (24) of the CCJ (Commission of Constitution and Justice) of. Vieira will present his report to his colleagues and, if no one asks for more time to evaluate, the PEC may be voted on in the board. The commission chairman, (PSD-BA), is against the project and wants to overthrow it as soon as possible.
Defenders of the text call him PEC from prerogatives and say that he protects the political class from abuse of the (Federal Supreme Court). Vieira disagrees with this view, as shown in the report.
“The PEC that formally points out is an instrument of defense of Parliament is actually a fatal blow to its legitimacy, since it configures open doors for the transformation of the legislature into safe shelter for criminals of all kinds,” wrote the rapporteur.
“This is the so-called deviation of purpose, evident in the present case, since the real objective of the proposal is not the public interest-nor the protection of the exercise of parliamentary activity-but the science desires of public figures they intend to prevent or at least delay, criminal investigations that may harm them,” Vieira said in the document.
The senator mentions the 13 years after the promulgation of the 1988 Constitution, when a rule similar to the armor PEC was in force. This rule was revoked in 2001. During this period, according to the rapporteur, there were almost 300 requests for investigation against deputies and only one was approved by the House.
“Thus, this PEC would have the real purpose of protecting perpetrators from serious crimes such as corruption, money laundering and criminal organization, which is clearly deviation of purpose and, consequently, unconstitutionality,” said the rapporteur.
The senator also rejects the amendments proposed by colleagues to the project. (Union-PR), for example, or to the speech of congressmen.
If Alessandro Vieira’s report is unanimously approved, the armor PEC will be buried without having to pass the plenary because it is considered unconstitutional. Otherwise, voting is still possible in the plenary.
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