The Chamber of Deputies analyzes, Wednesday evening (12/10), the revocation of the mandates of deputy Glauber Braga (PSol-SP) and of deputy Carla Zambelli (PL-S). For the moment, the case analyzed is that of Glauber. Watch live:
Glauber
The Ethics Council approved the revocation of the psoloist’s mandate in May 2025. The process indicates that Glauber violated parliamentary decorum by expelling Free Brazilian Movement (MBL) activist Gabriel Costenaro from the House in April 2024.
Glauber justified that Costenaro had offended his mother, Saudade Braga, now deceased and former mayor of Nova Friburgo (RJ).
Riot the day before
After seven months of inaction, Motta announced on Tuesday (September 12) that he would vote on Glauber’s impeachment request.
In response, the psoloist declared that he would occupy the table of the presidency of the House. Hours later, he was forcibly removed by the legislative police.
While Glauber presided, official House broadcasts were suppressed and staffers and journalists were blocked from accessing the plenary session. The Legislative Police also attacked press professionals, and Motta was harshly criticized on the networks and by associations in the region.
Hunger strike
Also in April, Glauber began an eight-day hunger strike on a House committee. The parliamentarian maintains that his dismissal is the result of political persecution and an intervention by the former President of the House Arthur Lira (PP-AL). Glauber has already repeatedly accused Lira of diverting parliamentary amendments for his own benefit, which the man from Alagoas denies.
Glauber also compares his case to that of former deputy Chiquinho Brazão, arrested in 2024 for being one of the alleged masterminds of the assassination of councilor Marielle Franco (PSol-RJ), in 2018. Although the Ethics Council also approved Brazão’s dismissal, this year Motta decreed his resignation due to absences, as he is in prison and did not attend the sessions.
Zambelli
This evening, MPs are also analyzing the loss of the mandate of MP Carla Zambelli (PL-SP). The Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ) approved the opinion recommending the revocation on Wednesday.
Zambelli is imprisoned in Italy, where she awaits the extradition process to Brazil. She is already prevented from running for office because she has two convictions totaling 15 years and 3 months in prison.
The parliamentarian was convicted by the Federal Court (STF) for intellectual participation in the invasion of the electronic systems of the National Council of Justice (CNJ), in partnership with the hacker Walter Delgatti. The case concerned the insertion of false documents, such as a fabricated arrest warrant against Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
The other conviction concerns illegal possession of a weapon and illegal coercion, in the episode in which he chased a supporter of the then candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) with a weapon in his hand, on the eve of the second round of the 2022 elections.
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