The top brass signaled that it could schedule, at the beginning of March, a session to analyze the veto of the project to reduce sentences for those convicted of coup plots, as long as there is no pressure to install a (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) on the .
The proposal could reduce the time that the former president (PL) will spend in a closed regime from 6 to 8 years to something between 2 years and 4 months and 4 years and 2 months, depending on the interpretation.
To analyze presidential vetoes, the president of , (-AP), must convene a joint session of senators and deputies. But, at these meetings, he also needs to read the requirements to install parliamentary commissions of inquiry, which he wants to avoid.
Therefore, since the opening of the legislative year, Alcolumbre and postponed the session. The president of the Chamber, (-PB), also resists installing the CPI on the issue in the House.
As shown by Sheetcardinals from the center and from Congress, which distanced itself from reporting on the process, and criticize what they call “Lava Jato 2” on the case, with prejudgment and “selective leakage” of information against politicians and ministers of the Supreme Court.
At the beginning of February, the Federal Police carried out an operation against Amprev (Amapá Previdência), manager of the state’s own pension scheme, for investments made in Master and which should create a hole in the funds of Amapá employees. One of the targets was an ally of Alcolumbre, Jocildo Silva Lemos, president of Amprev who was the senator’s campaign treasurer.
In a statement, the parliamentarian said he defended that everything be investigated and clarified and that the true culprits be punished, with respect to due legal process.
According to the report, the idea of the command of the Chamber and the Senate is to negotiate with the opposition the holding of the joint session on the veto of the Dosimetry PL, ensuring that there will be no pressure to read the Master’s mixed CPI request.
If there is an agreement in this regard, the forecast is that there will be a session in the first week of March. Otherwise, it may be delayed even further.
The opposition to the government (PT), especially the Bolsonarists, has been demanding Alcolumbre to consider reducing sentences, as the expectation is that Lula’s veto will be overturned. With this, in addition to Bolsonaro, the others convicted of the coup plot and the .
To maintain the veto, the PT would need to reverse at least seven votes in favor of the Dosimetry PL in the Senate, which PT members do not consider impossible. Overturning the veto requires votes from 257 deputies and 41 senators. The project was approved in the Chamber with 291 votes in favor and, in the Senate, with 48.
The government leader in Congress, senator Randolfe Rodrigues (PT-AP), has already stated that, if the veto is overturned, there is the possibility of appealing to the , since
Signatories of the , headed by deputy Carlos Jordy (PL-RJ), understand that Alcolumbre is obliged to read the document and install the commission in the first session of Congress after the protocol, made on the 3rd. The request had the support of 42 senators and 238 deputies.
There are also requests, separately, in the Chamber and the Senate. Support for the installation of parliamentary commissions of inquiry into the Master is growing in Congress, with support from Bolsonaro supporters, government supporters and members of the centrão.
In this context of interests that involve both the veto of the Dosimetry PL, Alcolumbre has been the target of complaints from opposition senators, who see inaction and alignment of the president of the Senate with the Lula government.
In addition to the veto on the Dosimetry PL, there are another 73 presidential vetoes pending analysis, including the rest of the vetoes on the bill that.
Senator Wellington Fagundes (PL-MT), leader of the bloc that brings together PL and Novo, says that the government’s strategy is to cool the CPI and the analysis of vetoes.
“The Senate turned a week of Carnival into a month. There were practically no sessions. It is not right for Congress and, especially, the Senate, to remain without an agenda for so long,” he states.
On Thursday (12), in a press interview to defend Master’s CPI and Toffoli’s impeachment, senator Eduardo Girão (CE), leader of Novo, also complained about the paralysis in the Senate.
“Pressure from society will be decisive in all of this, because the agreements seem to be moving, gaining time. It’s no surprise that we had the sessions canceled last week and this week”, he stated.
