The minister, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court), decreed this Thursday (11) the loss of the mandate of the federal deputy (-SP). In the same decision, he determined that the president of the Chamber, (-PB), swears in the parliamentarian’s deputy within 48 hours.
On Wednesday night (10), the House saved Zambelli’s mandate by 227 votes to 170 — a majority of 257 votes was needed to impeach her. She is imprisoned in Italy, where she fled after being convicted of the .
The plenary decision contradicted the vote in the CCJ (Constitution, Justice and Citizenship Commission), with the help of deputies from the center.
Zambellie to ten years in prison for breaking into the CNJ (National Council of Justice) system with the help of hacker Walter Delgatti Neto, also convicted.
According to the indictment, Delgatti issued a false arrest warrant against him and said he had done so at the deputy’s request. Zambelli says that he did not help draft the false document and that he only learned about the hacker’s invasion of the CNJ after the fact, when he received the fraudulent files from him.
The Chamber plenary deliberated on the loss of mandate, following Motta’s understanding that, according to the Constitution, Congress has the final say in the case of a parliamentarian convicted of a crime.
Motta had initially said that the Chamber’s Board would ratify the STF’s order immediately, but sent the case to the CCJ in June.
The corporatism of the deputies and the assessment that impeachment is a drastic measure weighed in favor of Zambelli. Furthermore, the vote adds to messages of dissatisfaction from parliamentarians in relation to the STF.
Zambelli’s opponents, on the other hand, recalled, during the vote, the episode in which she on the eve of the second round of the 2022 elections, which also.
