BRASÍLIA – After long government negotiations, the Chamber of Deputies exchanged dismissal for suspension of the mandate of federal deputy Glauber Braga (PSOL-RJ) for six months this Wednesday 10. There were 318 votes for the six-month suspension and 141 against, in addition to three abstentions.
He was accused of kicking Gabriel Costenaro – at the time a member of the Movimento Brasil Livre (MBL) – in the premises of the House last year.
Glauber said he did so because Costenaro, he said, was making insinuations about his mother, former Nova Friburgo mayor Saudade Braga, who was ill at the time. She died 22 days after the incident.
Glauber will replace former senator Heloísa Helena (Rede-RJ) during the semester.
The sentence exchange movement was led by the head of government, José Guimarães (PT-CE), who worked to convince other parliamentarians to reverse the decision to cancel Glauber’s mandate once and for all.
PSOL leaders say negotiations on an alternative text continued into the morning. The party’s parliamentarians point out that there is a certain unease on the part of the Centrão in approving this revocation.
“It is the political and responsible solution that strengthens Parliament,” said MP Alencar Santana (PT-SP), vice-president of the government.
MP Zé Trovão (PL-SC) accused the special secretary for parliamentary affairs, André Ceciliano, of calling MPs to propose amendments to prevent Glauber’s dismissal. “It’s an insult,” replied the head of government Hildo Rocha (MDB-MA), who threatened to present a representation against Trovão to the Ethics Council.
At StadiumCeciliano said he called lawmakers to ask them to vote against Glauber’s impeachment, but denied negotiating any amendments.
Earlier, in an interview with Stadium, Glauber took the dismissal for granted and accused the former presidents of the Chamber Arthur Lira (PP-AL) and Eduardo Cunha (Republicanos-RJ) and the president of the PP, Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI) of being other architects of his political downfall.
Lira was unhappy with the representation’s vote against Glauber and the government’s attempt to exchange the end of the parliamentarian’s mandate for a six-month suspension.
He was seen walking around the chamber unhappy with the 226-220 approval of an important vote that favored the vote on suspension of the mandate over the report that called for its revocation. “Two hundred and so many votes…damn!” Lira said over the phone.
On the eve of the decision of the plenary chamber, Glauber occupied the chair of president of the chamber, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), and was forcibly evicted by the legislative police.
Glauber defended his mandate for 25 minutes. “As for what happened, I admit it to you, ladies and gentlemen: to defend my family, I am capable of much more,” he declared. “To defend my family, a kick in the ass is nothing.”
All major changes in the process took place this year. Glauber began a hunger strike in April, soon after the Ethics Council approved his dismissal. He occupied a plenary session of the committee and drank only water, saline solutions and isotonic drinks during the strike, which lasted nine days.
The strike was closed after an agreement with Mottawho promised he wouldn’t vote on impeachment until the second half of this year.
MBL member Kim Kataguiri (União-SP) called for Glauber’s dismissal at the start of Wednesday’s session. “If we normalize kicking someone else, will that be the new rule?” he asked. “He (Glauber) turned the entire impeachment process into a political platform. » Subsequently, he changed his position and decided in favor of a six-month suspension.
THE Stadium showed that the rapporteur of the process which requested the dismissal of Glauber, the deputy Paulo Magalhães (PSD-BA)already attacked a journalist in the House and was not sanctioned.
24 years ago, he kicked a journalist who denounced in a book the uncle of the parliamentarian, the former governor of Bahía Antonio Carlos Magalhães.
On April 4, 2001, the journalist Maneca Muniz launched, in the corridor of the House committees, a book entitled The open veins of Carlismwhere he detailed the corruption scandals of Magalhães’ uncle.
The parliamentarian, who at the time belonged to the PFL (now DEM and today União Brasil), tore off a clothesline on which excerpts of the work were displayed and kicked Muniz, who retaliated with a punch.
In the next day’s edition, April 5, 2001, the Stadium said the confusion was not greater because House security guards acted quickly. At the time, Paulo Magalhães said he was following orders from Aecio Neves (PSDB-MG), then President of the Chamber, to remove the clothesline from the Congress premises.
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