Opposition wants to hear Dino’s subordinates at CPMI on January 8

With deadlines shortened by the calendar and walled off by the demands of the ruling majority, the opposition in the Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI) on January 8 will try to place at least two calls for witnesses to advance in investigations into federal omissions in acts of vandalism in Brasília . In the final stretch of work, which will end on October 17, the opposition will first need to re-establish dialogue with the president of the CPMI, deputy Arthur Maia (União Brasil-BA), shaken by the criticism he heard, of alleged favoring the government.

The minority’s goal is to maintain the ratio of one audience of interest to the opposition to every three or four of the governing base. In the priority list, in addition to the main target, the Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, are two of his subordinates: the intelligence advisor to the portfolio Glauber Amorim de Carvalho and the commander of the National Public Security Force, José Américo Gaia. Shielding Dino at the CPMI made the requests for hearings from his two assistants gain strategic weight, as they could support the minister’s negligence, in addition to motivating requests for clarification.

At the same time, deputies and senators are expected to return to the charge of collecting images from the Ministry of Justice’s security cameras captured on January 8 and repeatedly denied by Dino, despite successive requests from the CPMI and orders from Minister Alexandre de Moraes, from the Supreme Court. Federal Court (STF), confirming the content of the requests and denying any restriction alleged by the minister. The president of the collegiate notified the STF and the government about the need to meet the demand, but ruled out facing directly or suing Dino.

If approved by the commission’s plenary session through an agreement signed by Arthur Maia, the Amorim and Gaia hearings have the potential to yield impacts similar to that of the testimony at the beginning of August by the former general director of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) Saulo Moura Cunha , whose revelations implicated once and for all the former Minister of the Institutional Security Office (GSI) of the Lula government, General Marco Gonçalves Dias, in the condition of omission, even starting to be included in the investigation of the Federal Supreme Court (STF).

At the time of the invasions, the National Force had, according to data from the Ministry of Justice itself, around 240 men on standby at the Ministry’s headquarters, a few meters from Praça dos Três Poderes, throughout the period in which the invasions were taking place. “That is why the presence of the commander is essential. He has a lot to say to the CPMI and, perhaps because of this, his call arouses so much resistance from the government”, said senator Eduardo Girão (Novo-CE).

Likewise, he sees the importance of listening to Glauber Amorim, who was the recipient of a series of 33 alerts issued by the intelligence services about imminent events. Called by Senator Esperidião Amin (PP-SC) “the person responsible for Dino’s mailbox”, the advisor would be asked about what he did with the information received about the risk of violent acts, detailing to whom he forwarded it and what measures were taken or not taken .

Advancement of orders will depend on agreements with government supporters

Despite the obvious imbalance in the number of approved applications, in favor of the federal government’s allies, the worst scenario for the opposition is in the continuity of the disagreement with the president of the commission. In addition to not moving forward on the opposition agenda, there is still a chance that government requests related to issues outside the central object of the CPMI, but which affect former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and his wife Michelle, with breaches of secrecy . Therefore, opposition parliamentarians are anxious for a resumption of agreements.

Due to the last agreement, signed after a long stalemate at the beginning of last week, the opposition will have hearings of its interest in the two sessions this week. This Tuesday (29) Colonel Fábio Augusto Vieira, who led the Military Police of the Federal District (PMDF) on January 8, should be heard. But the defense of the military police appealed to the Federal Supreme Court (STF) for him not to attend the CPMI on January 8th.

The former commander and six other officers were arrested on August 18 by order of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF). According to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), the PM summit was silent. Vieira had already been arrested in January, days after the invasions.

Senator Izalci Lucas (PSDB-DF) justifies the request to hear Vieira by recalling that the colonel “lost the ability to lead his direct subordinates, since his requests for reinforcements were neither considered nor responded to promptly”. Girão, in turn, considers it urgent to investigate this “blackout of commands”. The audience with General Gonçalves Dias is scheduled for Thursday (31), which ran the risk of taking place only in the last week of the CPMI. Next week, the committee should not have sessions due to the Sete de Setembro holiday.

Bolsonaro siege contaminates CPMI voting agenda

Among the 57 requests approved on Thursday (24), the recall of the former aide-de-camp of former President Jair Bolsonaro, Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, was defined. The parliamentarians also approved by agreement to break the fiscal, telephone and telematic secrecy of federal deputy Carla Zambelli (PL-SP) and three people connected to her. Mauro Cid’s second hearing was suggested by the CPMI rapporteur, senator Eliziane Gama (PSD-MA). The lieutenant colonel deposed to the commission on 11 July. The date of the new deposition has not yet been set.

The advance of the government agenda, which irritated the opposition, involved eight requests related to deputy Carla Zambelli (PL-SP) and people connected to her family and office. The CPMI broke the parliamentarian’s fiscal, telephone and telematic secrecy to investigate a complaint made to the commission by the hacker Walter Delgatti Neto.