The government base articulated, on the eve of the end of work, the replacement of two opposition senators in the Organized Crime CPI in an offensive to prevent the vote on the commission’s final report or defeat it in the last session of the collegiate.
Sergio Moro (União-PR) and Marcos do Val (Podemos-ES) left the panel, both members of the Democracy Parliamentary Bloc (MDB, PSDB, Podemos and União Brasil) and in favor of the opinion. In their places, Beto Faro (PT-PA) and Teresa Leitão (PT-PE) entered, aligned with the government.
The exchange was the result of an agreement. Senators involved in the articulation state that, with the new composition, there was a calculation of at least seven votes to empty the deliberation, in a scenario of 11 sitting senators. In addition to the two new members, this includes the president of the CPI, Fabiano Contarato (PT-ES), Humberto Costa (PT-PE), Soraya Thronicke (PSB-MS) and Otto Alencar (PSD-BA), forming a majority sufficient to prevent the vote or defeat the opinion.
Marcos do Val told GLOBO that he was outraged by his withdrawal:
— I’m trying to understand. The system is like that — he complained.
Behind the scenes, the predominant reading is that the change altered the correlation of forces at the decisive moment of the CPI and consolidated the scenario that should lead to the closure of work without deliberation on the report — which includes requests for indictment of STF ministers and the Attorney General of the Republic.
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Government allies maintain that the replacement is a regulatory matter and the prerogative of party leaders. The opposition, in turn, classifies the movement as a direct intervention to stop the vote.
The change was formalized in the Senate system with the following record:
“On April 14, 2026, Senator Beto Faro was designated as a full member, replacing Senator Sergio Moro, who no longer forms part of the committee; and Senator Teresa Leitão was designated as a full member, replacing Senator Marcos do Val, who no longer makes up the committee, for the leadership of the Brazilian Democratic Movement”.
