Pacheco tells the STF that it is not possible to open the January 8th CPI

The president of the Senate claims that the signatures were collected in January, before the start of the current legislature

The President of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), has taken a stand against the mandate issued by Senator Soraya Thronicke (União-MS) at the Federal Supreme Court (STF) which calls for the establishment of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) on the coup plotters of 8 January. The lawyers of the Chamber who signed the text argue that the deputy’s application was presented on January 9, prior to the current legislature, which began in February, and therefore could not go ahead.

The document presented by Pacheco cites an excerpt from the Senate statute which states that the duration of the CPI “cannot exceed the period of the legislature in which it was created” and that “at the end of the legislature all proposals pending in the Federal Senate will be archived”. To resume the journey, he justifies, signatures need to be collected after February.

As shown the Stadium, Soraya managed to collect 40 signatures from senators, including from the PT, for an opening CPI. Gilmar Mendes, STF minister, responded to a mandamus bill she presented and gave Pacheco ten days to explain why she had not yet read the bill establishing the CPI in the House.

MPs supporting former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) are articulating another investigative front by a Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI), which would involve both the Senate and the House to investigate the coup acts. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he did not want lawmakers to launch an investigation into January 8. The author of the CPMI is the deputy André Fernandes (PL-CE) The office of the Attorney General has asked the STF to open an investigation to determine the participation of Fernandes himself in inciting protests with acts of vandalism.

“Do they (governors) prefer a biased CPI, controlled by a deputy under investigation, who already has ready answers? That there will be a Cpi, do not doubt. The government is between the cross and the sword. Here in the Senate, we have a more impartial attitude,” Soraya said.

It will be up to the minister-rapporteur, Gilmar Mendes, dean of the Supreme Court, to decide the course of the case.

Source: Terra

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