The City of São Paulo and the president of the CPI, Rubinho Nunes, have five days to explain the closure of the commission
The São Paulo Court gave a deadline of five days, on Monday (18), so that the City Council and councilor Rubinho Nunes (União), president of the CPI for Social Interest Housing (HIS), explain the conclusion of the investigations and the conduct of the work and the final opinion of the commission, which should be voted on this Tuesday (19).
The decision was made by judge Evandro Carlos de Oliveira, from the 7th Public Finance Court, following an action presented by the vice-president of the CPI, councilor Nabil Bonduki (PT), who accuses the work of being “run over”.
Bonduki tries to suspend the vote on the opinion and claims that he received the document, with 1,739 pages, just 24 hours before the session. “Are we going to vote on a report without reading it?” he asked.
The decision intensified the conflict within the CPI. On the one hand, Rubinho Nunes defends the advancement of the vote. Do others, Bonduki and Opposition parliamentarians ask for more time for analysis and want to expand investigations into possible fraud in affordable housing.
The opinion prepared by rapporteur Murillo Lima (PP), from the government base, proposes measures such as a ban on renting HIS and HMP apartments on platforms such as Airbnb, a limit of one unit per CPF and punishments for companies that fail to comply with housing policy rules. The text also provides for sending the conclusions to the Public Ministry and the Civil and Federal police.
In a statement, Rubinho Nunes stated that the Court did not grant an injunction to suspend the vote and said that the judge’s order is “protocol”. The councilor also stated that the CPI presidency will continue to conduct the work “until the end”, respecting the commission’s regulations.
Nabil Bonduki stated that he took legal action to prevent the early closure of the CPI and criticized the deadline for analyzing the report. According to him, there are still companies that should be heard by the commission and proposals presented by the opposition that were not debated.
The CPI has been investigating possible fraud in the production and sale of affordable housing in São Paulo since September last year.
Note from the president of the CPI, Rubinho Nunes
“The attempt at judicialization failed. The Judiciary did not grant the requested injunction, recognizing the limits of judicial action on acts of the Legislative Power. The order issued is protocol, in respect of the contradictory and broad defense and we will respond to it in legal form, through the Chamber’s Attorney’s Office. The curious thing is to know that councilor Nabil Bonduki, who claims concern about the continuity of the investigation, will not even be present in today’s session to defend his own theses before the CPI. This perhaps says something about the difference between making a speech about inspection and actually participating in it.
This Presidency, in turn, will continue to conduct the work until the end, respecting legislative discussions and deliberations, complying with the Rules of Procedure and guaranteeing the autonomy of this CPI.”
Nota do vice-president da CPI, Nabil Bonduki
“We filed this Writ of Mandamus to suspend the closure of the CPI before the statutory deadline, which would be June 11, and the hasty vote on the report, scheduled for today. There were still companies relevant to the investigation of the facts to be heard, such as Booking and Vitacon. Furthermore, the president of the CPI failed to sign and send requests that had already been approved, which is an irregularity. For this reason and for several other reasons, we defend that the report should not be voted on in the session of today. The report presented by the rapporteur, councilor Murillo Lima, has 1,700 pages and was sent to the CPI councilors just 24 hours before the session. We presented 16 proposals that need to be debated. The councilors, in addition to having late access to the text, did not have the opportunity to discuss more effective proposals to combat these frauds.
