Minister Dias Toffoli, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), gave President Jair Bolsonaro, the Attorney General’s Office (AGU) and the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) five days to express their views on decrees that make it possible to convene of the military police by the Armed Forces.
The action was brought by six parties, which are trying to suspend government rules. The captions state that Decree-Law 667/1969, edited based on Institutional Act 5 (AI-5) of 1968, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, establishes its subordination and control as a central premise of the organizational structure of the military police. by the Ministry of the Army.
The rule, regulated by Decree 88.540/1983, provides for the possibility of direct and imperative summons, by the federal government, of the military police forces of the states to attend to the hypotheses of external war, prevent or repress serious disturbance of the order or threat of its irruption or ensure the corporation the necessary level of training and discipline.
The subtitles argue that the decrees were rejected by the Federal Constitution of 1988, which expressly provides for the subordination of police forces to state governors.
For the parties, the interpretation that has been taken up by isolated groups of police and even by federal government authorities, that the Armed Forces could override the states in charge of the military police violates the federative pact.
In the action, they ask the STF to rule out interpretations that base, “absolutely unreasonable”, the possibility of calling or direct mobilization of the police forces of the states to act under the command of the federal government or the Armed Forces for the purpose of maintenance or containment. of public order.
Wanted, the Plateau has not yet manifested.
Source: CNN Brasil
