Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG) created a committee of experts to discuss an update to the country’s impeachment law.
The act was published in the Official Gazette of the Senate this Friday (11). Among the members of the so-called “Commission of Jurists” are the minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Ricardo Lewandowski, who will be responsible for presiding over the work of the collegiate, the minister of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) Rogério Schietti Machado Cruz and the Minister of the Federal Audit Court (TCU) Antonio Anastasia.
The commission’s rapporteur will be the lawyer Fabiane Pereira de Oliveira.
Lewandowski was the president of the STF at the time of the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff, and it was up to him to preside over the sessions in the Federal Senate that led to the impeachment of PT.
Anastasia, another member of the commission, was the rapporteur for Dilma’s impeachment in 2016.
According to the act signed by Pacheco, the impeachment law “is outdated in its comparison with the Federal Constitution” and ends up “always raising debates about its validity, compatibility with constitutional dictates and procedural difficulties”.
The commission will be responsible for drafting a text of a bill that serves to update the impeachment law.
The collegiate will have 180 days to prepare a proposal. The period begins with the installation of the commission, which has not yet been scheduled to take place.
Source: CNN Brasil
