The president of the Chamber, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), avoided responding this Tuesday about the request for impeachment of deputy Alexandre Ramagem (PL-RJ). The head of the House did not comment on whether the measure will be decided by the Chamber’s Board of Directors or whether it will be voted on in the plenary.
– When it arrives, I will analyze it and respond to you. Let’s wait – said Motta.
Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), determined earlier this Tuesday that the Chamber must be notified of the deputy’s loss of mandate. The measure is part of Ramagem’s conviction in the criminal action for the coup plot.
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According to Moraes, the revocation must be declared by the Board of the Chamber. According to the Constitution, when a parliamentarian is sentenced to a sentence of more than 120 days in a closed regime — as is the case of Ramagem — the Board of Directors of the Chamber can declare the loss of the mandate through a simple administrative act, without the need for a vote in the plenary.
This was the path adopted, for example, in 2017, in the case of then deputy Paulo Maluf, whose mandate was declared vacant directly by the Board.
However, among government supporters there is fear that the president of the Chamber, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), will repeat the procedure recently applied to deputy Carla Zambelli (PL-SP).
In that case, Motta did not follow the administrative route and decided to send the process for analysis by the Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ), which opens a longer process: report, possibility of appeals, long deadlines and, in the end, the need for a vote in the plenary, which requires 257 votes to confirm the impeachment.
Ramagem is in the United States and his preventive arrest had already been ordered by Moraes. Now, the minister has ordered the beginning of the sentence. The deputy was sentenced by the STF, in September, to 16 years and one month in prison. Because he was on the run, Moraes ordered that Ramagem’s name be entered into the National Prison Monitoring Bank (BNMP), which is a system that consolidates data on people arrested, wanted and subjected to criminal measures.
The data is produced and updated in real time directly by the Judiciary, throughout the national territory, to support public security and judicial measures.
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Alexandre Ramagem was convicted due to his role in the Bolsonaro government as director general of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin). For the majority of ministers in the First Panel of the STF, he used his position to assist Bolsonaro’s attacks against electronic voting machines.
