The Ethics Council rejected this Wednesday (4) the request to suspend the mandate of the deputy (-RJ) for six months for breach of decorum.
Novo asked for the former PT leader to be penalized because he presented a representation for the initiation of criminal prosecution by the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) against (Novo-RS) for a speech that the deputy had made in the Chamber’s Tribune.
In October, deputy Fernando Rodolfo (PL – PE), rapporteur of the case, recommended the admissibility of the complaint. Then, on January 30, he filed a request to archive the representation. The vote recorded nine votes in favor of archiving, three votes against and one abstention.
Rodolfo justified the change as the result of a “matured legal conviction in the light of new knowledge”, since the Code of Ethics and Parliamentary Decorum does not foresee the act of activating control bodies as sanctionable.
For the rapporteur, Lindbergh had “institutional motivation, aimed at defending the legitimacy and stability of democratic institutions, especially the Federal Supreme Court, and not of a personal or party-political nature” and continuing with representation could curtail the exercise of parliamentary freedom.
In the speech that led to Lindbergh’s representation to the PGR, Van Hattem said that “the organization that is currently in the STF is a mafia”. Novo argued that the PT deputy’s action denoted a “clear affront to guaranteed parliamentary immunity.”
Lindbergh Farias and his lawyer did not attend the meeting, which was empty. The session was led by deputy Fabio Schiochet (UNIÃO-SC), president of the Ethics Council.
At the end of the session, Schiochet stated that in the last five years the Ethics Council archived 75 cases and said that many of them did not even “need” to be analyzed. “May we actually come to work and not to create confusion in the plenary”, he concluded.
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