Government articulates and postpones vote on amnesty bill on January 8th until after first round

Bolsonarists understand that the inclusion of the request in Wednesday’s agenda would be canceled due to the lack of votes of the Centrão deputies.

BRASÍLIA – Used as a bargaining chip by the opposition to secure succession to the presidency of the Chamber, the bill that provides amnesty for those arrested on January 8 should be voted on in the first week after the first round of this year’s municipal elections in October. The move came after the government coordinated with Centrão to block the proposal. In exchange, the Constitution and Justice Committee (CCJ) of the Chamber will discuss, on Wednesday 11, the proposed amendment to the Constitution (PEC) that limits the monocratic decisions of the ministers of the Federal Supreme Court (STF). The agreement reached meant that this PEC will not be voted on this Wednesday.

Centrão members believe that the current text of the proposal is too broad and say that a consensual solution is needed between all political groups. Supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) planned to include this project in an extra vote this Wednesday. To do so, they would need 34 votes, which they could not obtain.

The text was due to be analysed this Tuesday 10, and the government’s supporters were saved by the ringing of the bell, for the start of the agenda in the Chamber in the late afternoon, which forced the end of the CCJ session before the reading of the text of the report.

The rapporteur of the amnesty project, Rodrigo Valadares (União-SE), criticizes the government’s position. “What we have seen since yesterday (Tuesday) It is a maneuver by the government, by the left, which has specious interests. We are suffering every type of obstruction and retaliation”, Valadares said. “You are only postponing the inevitable. Yesterday (Tuesday)We have shown that we will win this war and that people will get out of prison. We will have amnesty in Brazil.”

Tuesday showed the StateThe PP, led by the Speaker of the House Arthur Lira (PP-AL), made a gesture towards the Bolsonarists and replaced members considered neutral or closer to the government with opponents to ensure the approval of the proposal. União Brasil, on the other hand, even removed its opponents from the composition of the CCJ, but they quickly backtracked.

On Tuesday, MP Arthur Maia (União-BA) called for the debate to be postponed. “We at União Brasil have MPs who want to vote in favor, others who want to vote against, but one thing is certain, this is not the right time for this debate,” he said. “We know that this is the last session before the elections. If we vote on October 8, the first Tuesday after the elections, the elections are already over, the climate is different.”

Rodrigo Valadares, who hails from the same União Brasil as Arthur Maia, noted Tuesday that there is a confusing scenario regarding the party alignment at the moment. “There are many players and we don’t know which teams will be on the field. There are players who play on two teams,” he said.

Both among the allies of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and among members of the STF there are fears that Bolsonaro could obtain an amnesty with this proposal. As demonstrated by the StateJurists believe that the new text is too broad and that the project could create legal loopholes that benefit the former president.

Valadares said that the project does not affect Bolsonaro, but that, according to him, as part of the strategy itself, the report was published only after the start of the CCJ session on Tuesday, marked by riots, mockery and attacks among left-wing and right-wing deputies. The rapporteur also says that he will not discuss specific points of the project. Neither members of the government nor Bolsonarists have said they read the document on Tuesday or even early this Wednesday.

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Source: Terra

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