An agreement made by the leader of the government in , Jaques Wagner (-BA), with the leader of the opposition, Rogério Marinho (PL-RN), on the project that reduces the sentence of (PL) and others convicted of the January 8th coup attacks generated uneasiness among government supporters.
The text was approved this Wednesday (17) in the Senate plenary with a score of 48 votes in favor and 25 against. Like the Chamber, it goes to presidential sanction. Lula (PT), as shown by Sheet.
Senators from the government’s base claim that there was an effort to push it to next year — in an attempt to mobilize public opinion and seek to reverse the tide in favor of approval.
The idea, they say, was to obtain the longest possible delay from the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission), five days, with the support of the president of the collegiate, Otto Alencar (PSD-BA), who has always taken a radical stance against the project.
Shortly before the start of the session, however, senator Marcos Rogério (PL-RO) spoke with Wagner and Marinho and passed on to the two a message from the president of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre (União Brasil-AP): both the Dosimetry PL and the PL should be voted on this Wednesday (17) in the plenary.
According to reports, Wagner and Marinho agreed that neither the government would prevent the vote on the Dosimetry PL, nor the opposition would prevent the government from voting this Wednesday on the project that increases taxation.
Both, according to reports, could speak against the two projects and guide a vote against, but not obstruct — in a kind of agreement on the procedure, but not on the content of the proposals themselves.
The agreement reached by the government leader moments before the CCJ (and therefore unknown to the vast majority) provoked a series of criticisms, denials and misunderstandings throughout the day.
The Minister of Institutional Relations, Gleisi Hoffmann (PT), approached Wagner to complain. Gleisi stated that she was surprised by the agreement and questioned how he had done it even though he had been warned by Lula (PT) that he would veto the project.
During the afternoon, the minister even said on social media that there was “no negotiation or agreement in the Senate involving the bill to reduce sentences for coup plotters convicted by the STF”.
The PT leader in the Chamber, (RJ), stated the same, . “There is no agreement. President Lula is radically against dosimetry. He will have to veto it,” he declared.
Upon returning from the ministerial meeting promoted by Lula at Granja do Torto, Wagner gave a speech at the CCJ and admitted to having reached a procedural agreement without consulting the minister or the president.
“I accept what I did, a procedural agreement, because I think there was no point in pushing. The president will make his decision. Who knows, in the Christmas spirit, he will decide to sanction it, but it doesn’t belong to me. It’s a decision he will make. But I just want to say that I didn’t change anything because on the merits my position is maintained”, he said.
Parliamentarians who defend Wagner’s position claim that the government did not have enough votes to prevent the project from being approved by the CCJ.
Alcolumbre, they say, had also already announced that he would like to vote on the measure in the plenary one way or another this Wednesday — fulfilling a promise made to Bolsonaristas when he was campaigning to return to the presidency of the Senate.
Senator Renan Calheiros (MDB-AL), one of the most critical of the agreement made by Wagner, accused the government, in a speech in the Senate gallery, of giving a Christmas present to the coup plotters. Renan also reported that Otto had initially agreed to postpone the vote for five days.
“I’ve been here for many years. I arrived in Congress in 1982 as a federal deputy; then I was reelected to the Constituent Assembly, and I’m serving my fourth term in this House, but I’ve never seen, with a transcendental issue like this, someone, in the name of the government, make an agreement and give Christmas turkey to the coup plotters,” said Renan.
