Despite yesterday’s crushing defeat in the Chamber of Deputies, the government of Luiz Inácio Lula remains hopeful in an attempt to contain the progress of the bill (PL) Dosimetrywhich proposes reduced sentences for those convicted of coup attempts, including former President J.air Bolsonaro. The PT administration hopes to be able to postpone the discussion until next year and, in doing so, ease tensions between the government and Parliament.
As part of this tactic, members of the allied base are already mobilizing to ask for a view when the matter is submitted for examination to the Commission on the Constitution and Justice (CCJ) of the Senate, a collegial body which must evaluate this type of text before referring the subject to the plenary. In practice, the request for review can give senators some time to consider the content of the proposal.
THE Value noted that the request for reconsideration aims to delay the processing of the file as much as possible. Even so, if the senators manage to advance the PL and obtain a majority to approve the text in plenary, the interlocutors of the Palácio do Planalto see great chances that Lula will use the power of the presidential pen to veto certain articles of the new measure.
According to a source, the government leadership will wait for the discussion in the Senate to debate which articles can in fact be blocked by presidential prerogative. But, even if this is not yet defined, advisors close to Lula ensuring that the chances of the President fully approving the bill, as presented by the House, are slim.
In addition to helping the PT administration take a stand against the reduction of sentences for Bolsonarovetoes will also allow the government to postpone this discussion until February next year, due to parliamentary recess. Indeed, according to the Constitution, the Executive has at least 15 days to analyze any issue approved by members of Congress, which will inevitably postpone this imbroglio until 2026.
Previously, the President of the Republic had tried to minimize the successive defeats of the PT administration in Parliament. Lula admitted, for example, that there are “disagreements” between the executive and members of Congress, but maintained that it was a “matter of democracy.”
“I am very calm about what is happening in Brazil, this disagreement in the House is typical of democracy, we were not used to it. This country is changing for the better, you can be sure of that,” Lula said.
In the same speech, the president once again declared that he was “grateful” to Parliament for having managed to approve “everything his administration wanted.” However, the head of the Planalto Palace himself later admitted that he did not have the support of deputies and senators in 100% of the government’s agendas.
“You won’t see me cursing one or the other, no. I came here to govern, I want to prove that I’m lucky. (…) I’m grateful to Congress because, even with all the differences, we approved everything we wanted. (It wasn’t even) 100% (of the agendas), but maybe 80%, 70%. When I was a unionist, we didn’t approve everything we wanted either. wanted. We learned to govern this country, without a veto to the mayor or governor (of the opposition),” he added.
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