It has every reason to be one of the most famous phrases in politics in Brasília: that you know how a CPI, a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry, begins, but you never know how it ends. It could lead to more investigations, revelations, accusations — even arrests. Although, lately, they’ve led to…nothing.
Because we already know how one of them will begin: Organized Crime. It began in a bombastic way, in addition to the president and former president of the Central Bank, former finance ministers from several governments and a palace minister from the current one.
Unlike summons, invitations do not oblige the person invited to testify at a CPI, therefore, the invited ministers, Dias Toffoli and Alexandre de Moraes, do not need to go.
Of course, this is a trap, especially a political one, given the obvious strain of seeing members of the Supreme Court invited to talk about possible connections with a banker accused of fraud — one of the subjects investigated by this CPI: the Banco Master scandal.
But what the CPI is trying to do, initially. And then the game becomes much more dangerous for everyone involved.
Given the broad degree of access purchased by the owner of Banco Master in various sectors of Brazilian politics, the appetite in Parliament for a CPI aimed solely at that bank is very low.
Does anyone know how this would end? From a political point of view, maybe it’s better not to even know, right?
It’s different for the Supreme Court. It is not known, in fact, how this CPI will end. For the Supreme Court, it starts badly.
