Deputy files impeachment request against Lula

Federal deputy Ubiratan Sanderson (PL-RS) filed this Thursday (26) an impeachment request against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT). In the document, the congressman alleges that Lula committed an alleged crime of responsibility by referring to the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff (PT) as a “coup d’état”.

The deputy stated that he has already submitted the request to the General Secretariat of the Chamber. It is up to the President of the House, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), to assess whether or not he accepts the process. On social media, Sanderson said that this is the “first request for impeachment” against the PT, who took office on January 1.

This Monday (23), during a trip to Argentina, Lula said that in 2016 there was a coup d’état in Brazil. “You know that after an auspicious moment in Brazil, when we governed from 2003 to 2016, there was a coup d’état”, said the president.

Already this Wednesday (26), in Uruguay, the representative called former President Michel Temer (MDB) a “coup leader”. Temer assumed the presidency after Dilma’s impeachment. “Almost everything we did for social benefit in my country, in 13 years of government, was destroyed in six years. Or rather, in seven years. Three from the coup leader Michel Temer and four from the Bolsonaro government,” said Lula.

The congressman argued that Dilma’s impeachment process was “strictly legal” and “constitutional”. “We cannot accept a president who goes out there and lies about Brazilian democracy,” said Sanderson.

“By publicly stating, in official speech, before foreign authorities, including, as president of Brazil, that the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff was a coup d’état, the current president attacks, in an angry, abject and contrary to the truth, democracy Brazilian,” he wrote in the document.

“After all, a coup, in the political sense, is one in which elected representatives are removed from office outside the rules set forth in the Federal Constitution, which was notably not the case of former president Dilma Rousseff,” he added.

The deputy also indicates in the document that the impeachment of former President Dilma was described as a “2016 coup” in a publication on the official website of the Presidency of the Republic on the 16th.

“The Minister of the Social Communication Secretariat of the Presidency (Secom), Paulo Pimenta, also indicated four other women for the transition process at the EBC, who will assume advisory or managerial positions: Rita Freire, president of the Board of Trustees of the EBC who was impeached after the coup de 2016; Juliana Cézar Nunes, a company employee; and journalists Nicole Briones and Flávia Filipini”, says the text published on Planalto’s official website.