Even Guilherme Dayrit’s (PP-SP) allies such as Rio de Janeiro’s governor, Claudio Castro (PL), were upset by what they saw as the MP’s failure to submit his report and speed up the processing of the anti-factionalism bill introduced by Palacio do Planalto. The assessment is that Dirit, São Paulo’s licensed public security secretary, “jumped to the start” in discussing the text, opening the way for Lula’s government to respond with an attack to stop the changes incorporated by the rapporteur and defended by Bolsonaro’s opposition.
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Last Wednesday, Castro appealed to Speaker of the House of Representatives Hugo Mota (Republican Party-PB) to postpone the vote on the bill, which was scheduled for last Wednesday, for 30 days. Mota extended the analysis of the project until the end of the night, but only until next Tuesday (18).
The request was supported by Romeo Zema (Novo-MG), Ronaldo Caedo (União Brasil-GO), Jorginho Melo (PL-SC), and the Deputy Governor of the Federal District, Celina Leao (PP), who are part of the so-called “Consórcio da Paz”, formed by right-wing governors.
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According to the group members, Derrett failed to prolong the discussion on the topic, which is what they now aim to do. The strategy is to intensify the Lula government’s erosion of public security, an issue seen as a weakness in the PT and which has put the president on the defensive since the massive operation against the Comando Vermelho (CV) led by the Castro administration that left 121 dead in the northern area of the capital, Rio de Janeiro.
The idea of postponing the vote also received support from Jair Bolsonaro’s seat in the Premier League. In response to the article team’s question, party leaders disagreed about the intention to increase pressure on Lula’s government and attributed this action to the need to seek consensus between opponents and government supporters on the final text.
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Motta came in to direct the project, but Derrett himself echoed calls to postpone the discussion. The chamber president then postponed the vote until next Tuesday. The text will be the only agenda of the House of Representatives on this date.
“My replacement was never the finish line, it was the starting point,” summed up Durrett when he admitted pressing for a longer period of time to discuss the Premier League.
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For Castro’s allies, the longer it takes for the vote to take place, the better.
“The ideal would be to hold public hearings, testimony, meetings, and make it last as long as possible to put Lula’s government against the wall,” says one of the PL governor’s interlocutors.
The new wave of polls conducted by Genial/Quaest last Wednesday, the first conducted by the institute since the police action, indicated that the trend of improvement in the Labor MP’s rating in recent months has stalled as negotiations surrounding Donald Trump’s tariffs progress. Today, Lula has the approval of 47% and is rejected by 50% of the population. In the last poll, released in October, the rates were 48% and 49%, respectively.
Last week, after a period of silence in which he delegated the government’s response to subordinates such as Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski, Lula described the operation in Rio as a “massacre” and “disaster.” According to Genial/Quaest, 67% of Brazilians support police action.
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According to Genial/Quest itself, 73% support designating criminal factions and militias as terrorist organizations – another piece of information that, for Castro’s allies, would confirm the validity of the strategy of prolonging the government’s bloodshed and shaping the text according to the interests of the Bolsonian right.
However, Dayrit submitted his initial report last Friday (7), just two hours after he was appointed rapporteur. Since then, after Planalto’s reaction, it has presented four versions and abandoned the integration of the reform of the anti-terrorism law into the text submitted by the government, as well as the stipulation that the Federal Police (PF) will only act in investigations against organized crime in cases of national scope and with the permission of the governors.
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None of the four texts was able to satisfy Planalto or the opposition. Postponing the vote until next Tuesday necessarily means building a fifth version of the bill.
But, at least from the point of view of the Castro government, it is no longer known whether the affliction and damage will be the same for President Lula.
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