Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG) told interlocutors this Monday that if the opposition complies with all the procedures for opening a CPI to investigate allegations of irregularities at the Ministry of Education, it will read the request and install the commission.
According to sources, he told allies that CPIs that meet the opening requirements will be installed. There are three requirements: 27 signatures, budget and determined fact. His assessment to interlocutors was that to open a CPI of the MEC, only signatures would be lacking.
Senator Randolfe Rodrigues (Rede-AP) intends to file the opening request this Tuesday. Until the night of this Monday there were 28 signatures, but the Palácio do Planalto was operating to try to withdraw some support. Senator Giordano (MDB-SP) was one of the targets. He told CNN that he did not intend to withdraw: “I stand firm with the signature,” he said.
If the MEC’s CPI is in fact filed, Pacheco will have to make an assessment together with other requests for opening CPI’s that have already been filed. They are the CPI of NGOs in the Amazon, presented in 2019 by Senator Plinio Valerio (PSDB-AM); the CPI on Drug Trafficking filed by Senator Eduardo Girão (Podes-CE) and the CPI on Unfinished Works of the MEC presented by the now government leader in the Senate, Carlos Portinho (PL-RJ). There would, therefore, be no precedence of one CPI over another due to the moment in which they were filed. Pacheco told interlocutors that the analysis should be regimental and not political.
The last two were filed at the beginning of this year precisely to prevent a CPI to investigate the MEC from moving forward. In preliminary assessments, however, there was an understanding that the CPI on Unfinished Works of the MEC lacks a determined fact, while the CPI to investigate allegations of corruption gained strength after the arrest of former minister Milton Ribeiro and especially after the leak of audios by the investigated.
Source: CNN Brasil
