The Armage PEC is a proposal for amendment to the Constitution that seeks to change the legal treatment of parliamentarians and presidents of parties
The text provides that presidents of political parties with representation in Congress will have a special forum, being prosecuted and tried by the Supreme Federal Court (STF)
In addition, federal deputies and senators can only be prosecuted criminally by the Supreme Court if there is a approval of their colleagues and the authorization of Congress will have to be deliberated by the secret vote of the absolute majority of its members
The PEC determines that members National Congress may not be arrested, except in the act of unenforceable crime, nor criminally prosecuted without prior license from the House or Senate
The text also states that precautionary measures against congressmen can only be authorized by the Supreme Court, opening the possibility that even acts taken in misconduct (civil) actions have to have the court authorization
PEC emerged sponsored by Centrão as a message to the Supreme Court, seeking to restrict measures of transparency and resume parts of the original text of the 1988 Constitution
A central objective is to protect deputies from investigations on money deviations in parliamentary amendments, with more than 80 confidential inquiries in the STF
The original text is authored by Deputy Celso Sabino (União Brasil-PA) and was filed in 2021, shortly after the arrest of the then federal deputy Daniel Silveira by order of the STF, for attacks on STF ministers and Falas in favor of AI-5
PEC reflects the dissatisfaction of congressmen with in progress in the STF and seeks to make it difficult to punish crimes
Centrão used PEC to negotiate support, seeking to tie the left and right with the promise of then helping to approve or bar the amnesty to the prisoners of January 8, 2021
The consequences of PEC include the restriction of in force transparency measures, resuming a model that had been overthrown in 2001 by popular pressure
If approved definitively, the PEC may hold in progress, as constitutional amendments have immediate effect and there is no transition rule established
The Supreme Court itself should comment on the applicability of the amendment and may even consider it unconstitutional, revoking its effectiveness
To approve a PEC, it is necessary to support 308 of the 513 federal deputies and 49 of the 81 senators, in two shifts
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