This Thursday (26), the STF (Supreme Federal Court) put the brakes on the scandal investigations carried out by parliamentary commissions of inquiry.
The pretext was to overturn an injunction issued by one of the ministers, André Mendonça, which allowed the extension of CPMI’s work on the INSS (National Social Security Institute) scandal.
It was overturned by a large majority of eight votes to two, in aa festival of criticism of the behavior of the CPIs, which humiliate, abuse and leak content and break confidentiality, according to several votes in favor of the tidying up brake.
Reporter of this scandal and also of the Master case, he learned that his impetus for investigation, especially in Master, is an impetus… his.
In the current Brazilian political context, this has a much broader political meaning than the harmony and separation between the Powers, as was emphasized today.
What is happening is a great harmony between members of the Supreme Court, who are at the central focus of the Master scandal, and the president of the Senate, whose discomfort with the INSS CPMI, for example, has always been notorious. E everyone’s discomfort with scandals, especially the Master’s.
Apparently, what was discussed and voted on today in the Supreme Court plenary was the limits of investigation by the Legislature.
However, what really matters was something else: how to place scandals within the framework that insist on escaping attempts to suppress and control.
