Senator Plínio Valério (PSDB-AM) is the author of the request for the creation of the CPI.| Photo: Jefferson Rudy/Agência Senado.

The president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), read this Tuesday (4) the request for the installation of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) of the NGOs that work in the Amazon. The commission intends to investigate the functioning of these non-governmental organizations. Senator Plínio Valério (PSDB-AM) is the author of the request for the creation of the CPI.

“In response to the wishes of the people of the Amazon, President Rodrigo Pacheco has just read our request for the creation of the CPI of NGOs with the support of 37 senators. He sent the publication, checked its legality and announced that the CPI is able to install it. Let’s work”, said Valério, at the twitter.

A minimum of 27 supporting signatures and reading in plenary by the President of the House are required for a CPI to be installed in the Senate. The commission will be composed of 11 members and seven alternates. According to Pacheco, the collegiate must, within 130 days, investigate the facts related to non-governmental organizations and civil society organizations of public interest (OSCIPs) in the Amazon.

“The country began, with increasing frequency, to live with denunciations of the existence of ‘front NGOs’, whose real purposes would be to transfer resources to political parties or even to individuals. Suspicions also grew that, even without receiving government funding, NGOs engage in irregular activities, including providing services to companies headquartered abroad and to the interests of foreign powers,” says an excerpt from the justification for the CPI application.