The uncertainty regarding the case of the deputy (-RJ) is the newest chapter in the Chamber’s practice of, until now, turning a blind eye to avoiding legal proceedings and maintaining the parliamentary mandate.
(PL-SP), a period in which the maintenance of its advisors cost the public coffers more than R$1 million. (PL-SP) is imprisoned in Italy and was removed from office, but the Chamber postpones it from the (Supreme Federal Court).
The president of the Chamber, (-PB), prohibited them from voting from abroad in remote sessions, using their cell phones, but has so far maintained their mandates and the use of advisors — even in cases where there is a court decision for them to be removed from office.
The Chamber’s Ethics Council also avoided addressing the issue. When contacted, Motta and the Chamber’s institutional advisors did not comment.
Son of the former president (PL), Eduardo has been with us since March, when he fled Brazil claiming that the STF would withdraw his passport to prevent him from speaking internationally against his father’s trial.
The Chamber’s system records his presence in only 13 plenary sessions this year, with unexcused absences in another 50. He did not go to committees on a single day. Despite this, due to the excess of absences — the Chamber’s regulations provide for this analysis from March 5th of the following year.
Eduardo has hardly received any salaries since then. He was away for four months, but had to resume his mandate because this is the maximum period of leave to deal with private matters. In July, he received R$17,000, before payment of remuneration was blocked by decision of the STF.
The Chamber still charges him R$13,941 for the return of his salary due to unjustified absences in March, which led to his name being registered. Reimbursement of expenses with the parliamentary quota is also suspended, but Eduardo maintains nine advisors, at a cost of R$132 thousand per month.
The parliamentarian could still be the reason for a new controversy in the Chamber plenary. On Tuesday (25), the First Panel of the STF declared it. He is accused of acting in the United States to threaten the Judiciary into suspending proceedings against his father.
The PL leader, deputy Sóstenes Cavalcante (RJ), told Sheet who asked the party to request the suspension of criminal proceedings against Eduardo, based on an article in the Constitution that authorizes the Legislature to suspend the progress of proceedings against parliamentarians. The acronym has not yet made this request official.
The Chamber’s Ethics Council called for him to be the target of disciplinary proceedings for working to get the US to apply sanctions to Brazil to pressure against his father’s trial. Bolsonaro was mentioned by the president of the country, when imposing tariffs on Brazilian products.
Ramagem fled to the United States during the trial of the coup plot by the STF, a process in which he was sentenced to 16 years and one month in prison for participating in the attempted coup. The Supreme Court also determined the loss of the mandate, but Motta is still evaluating whether he will repeat the procedure adopted with Zambelli, of sending it to the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission), or whether the Board of Directors of the Chamber will decree the loss of the mandate.
Parliamentarians say there are doubts whether the plenary will declare Ramagem’s loss of mandate in this case. In May, the Chamber approved the suspension of this same process by 315 votes to 143, on the grounds that the parliamentarian was being persecuted. The STF only accepted the suspension of the trial for two of the five crimes with which he was being accused.
Ramagem has an open arrest warrant, due to the escape and the final decision (end of the possibility of appeals) of his conviction. He would have moved in September to a luxury condominium in the city of North Miami, Florida, while recording videos and voting remotely in the Chamber sessions, supported by a medical certificate.
In the case of Zambelli, the analysis of the loss of mandate was sent by Motta to the CCJ on June 12, and the processing in the commission has not yet been finalized. The opinion of rapporteur Diego Garcia (Republicanos-PB) must be presented to the members and voted on in the CCJ this Tuesday (2), when the period of five sessions counting from the end of the proceedings ends.
This stage ended on the 13th and took more than two months, with hearings from witnesses in two sessions and testimony from Zambelli herself, who participated remotely from the prison in Italy, throughout the month of September.
After that, Garcia waited for the STF to send the action documents he requested and consulted the Chamber’s technical area about the possibility of using information from the files, which are being processed under secrecy, in preparing his report, which also extended the process.
He cooperated Carolina Linharesfrom Brasilia
