The National Congress has overturned President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s veto on the timing of the delimitation of indigenous lands. The House and Senate had approved a project which provided that until the promulgation of the Constitution in October 1988 only lands occupied by indigenous people could be demarcated. Lula vetoed the text.
In September the Federal Court (STF) declared the timing thesis unconstitutional. The criteria for the delimitation of indigenous lands limited to 1988 are defended by the Agricultural Parliamentary Front (FPA), the largest in Congress, with more than 300 parliamentarians.
A few days after the STF’s decision, the Senate approved the draft timeframe. The text had already passed the House and reached Lula for sanction, who vetoed the main part of the text. Lula, following the indications of the Attorney General’s Office (AGU), also rejected the possibility of compensation to the owners of lands that could possibly be declared indigenous rights and the ban on expanding the lands already demarcated.
The timing ruling in the TFS was the trigger of a crisis between the Powers. The President of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), until then considered an ally of the Supreme Court, began to publicly defend the definition of fixed-term mandate for members of the Court. The Senate even approved a PEC that limits the monocratic decisions of the Court’s magistrates.
Against the background of the friction between the Judiciary and the Legislature, there is also the advancement, in the STF, of sentences aimed at decriminalizing abortion up to 12 weeks of gestation and legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, with a differentiation between consumer and dealer in based on the amount of marijuana, dammit. These programs were accelerated by former minister Rosa Weber, who retired in September.
Lula’s vetoes, in general, caused discomfort in Congress. The Speaker of the Chamber, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), complained directly to Lula about the failure to respect the agreements made between the legislative and executive powers during the drafting of the projects.
Source: Terra
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