An agreement reached by the leader of the government in the Senate, Jaques Wagner (PT-BA), with the leader of the opposition, Rogério Marinho (PL-RN), on the plan to reduce the sentence of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and other people convicted of the January 8 attacks has caused unease among government supporters.
The text was approved this Wednesday (17) in plenary session of the Senate with a score of 48. votes for and 25 against. Since the House has already approved the proposal, it will be subject to presidential approval. Lula (PT) must veto the text in its entirety, as shown Leaf.
Rank-and-file senators say there has been an effort to push back the vote on the so-called PL Dosimetry until next year — in an effort to mobilize public opinion and seek to turn the tide toward approval.
The idea, they say, was to obtain from the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission) the longest possible delay, five days, with the support of the president of the collegiate body, Otto Alencar (PSD-BA), who has always taken a radical position against the project.
However, shortly before the start of the session, Senator Marcos Rogério (PL-RO) spoke with Wagner and Marinho and conveyed to them a message from the President of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre (União Brasil-AP): both the PL Dosimetry and the bill that reduces part of the federal government’s tax benefits should be voted on this Wednesday in plenary.
According to reports, Wagner and Marinho agreed that neither the government would prevent the vote on the PL Dosimetry, nor the opposition would prevent the government from voting this Wednesday on the tax increase project, approved the day before by the Chamber of Deputies.
Both, according to reports, could speak against the two projects and guide a vote against, but without obstructing, in a sort of agreement on the procedure, but not on the content of the proposals themselves.
The agreement concluded by the head of government a few moments before the CCJ (and therefore unknown to the vast majority) gave rise to a series of criticisms, denials and misunderstandings throughout the day.
The Minister of Institutional Relations, Gleisi Hoffmann (PT), contacted Wagner to file a complaint. Gleisi said she was surprised by the deal and questioned how he had gone about it, even though Lula had warned him he would veto the project.
In the afternoon, the minister even declared on social networks that there were “no negotiations or agreement in the Senate on the bill aimed at reducing the sentences of the putschists convicted by the STF”.
PT House Leader Lindbergh Farias (RJ) said the same thing, as shown by the Panel. “There is no agreement. President Lula is radically against dosimetry. He will have to veto it,” he declared.
Upon returning from the ministerial meeting promoted by Lula in Granja do Torto, Wagner spoke to the CCJ and admitted having reached a procedural agreement without consulting the minister or the president.
“I accept what I did, a procedural agreement, because I think there is no point in insisting. The president will make his decision. Who knows, in the spirit of Christmas, he will decide to sanction it, but that does not belong to me. It is a decision that he will make. But I just want to say that I have not changed anything because basically my position is maintained,” he declared.
Parliamentarians defending Wagner’s position say the government did not obtain enough votes to prevent the project from being approved by the CCJ.
Alcolumbre, they say, had also already announced that he would like to vote on the measure in the plenary one way or another this Wednesday – fulfilling a promise made to the Bolsonaristas during his campaign to return to the Senate presidency.
Senator Renan Calheiros (MDB-AL), one of the most critical of the agreement concluded by Wagner, accused the government, in a speech from the Senate podium, of offering a Christmas present to the putschists. Renan also reported that Otto initially agreed to postpone the vote for five days.
“I have been here for many years. I arrived in Congress in 1982 as a federal deputy, then I was re-elected to the Constituent Assembly and I am serving my fourth term in this House, but I have never seen, with a transcendental question like this, someone, in the name of the government, conclude an agreement and offer a Christmas turkey to the putschists,” Renan said.
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