The senator (-RJ), filed this Monday (2) a PEC (proposed amendment to the Constitution) of the Republic. The text obtained signatures from 30 senators — 27 were needed.
The proposal maintains the possibility of reelection for other positions, including governors and mayors.
The senators who supported the PEC are from PL, PP, Republicans, União Brasil, Novo, Podemos and MDB.
Once filed, the PEC needs to be analyzed by the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission) and a special commission. To be approved, it needs to have three-fifths of the votes in two rounds of voting in and .
Flávio had been defending the end of re-election in interviews and, last week, during a meeting with the PL bench in the Chamber and Senate, he announced that he was collecting signatures to file a PEC in this regard.
“I make a public gesture […] to show that this is not a personal project, it is a country project. It’s the awareness that Brazil can’t handle four more years of PT”, Flávio told journalists after the meeting.
In justification, Flávio argues that the 1988 Constitution did not originally provide for the possibility of re-election to positions in the Executive Branch, which changed with the PEC of Re-election, enacted in 1997 during the then president’s term ().
According to the senator, the possibility of a president running again for office “creates a permanent state of election.”
“From then on, the search for a second consecutive term became the rule. The head of the Executive, who should govern with an exclusive focus on the public interest and the implementation of structuring policies, often began to act under the logic of a permanent campaign cycle. Necessary, but unpopular, measures were being postponed”, he writes.
