Senate may vote on urgency requirement for time frame

This Monday (5), Senator Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI) began collecting signatures for the urgent request that aims to speed up the processing of the PL for the timeframe. By the end of the afternoon, after the presentation, the application already had 16 signatures. 27 signatures of senators are needed for the urgency to be ruled.

After 16 years of debate in the Chamber of Deputies, the PL for the time frame reached the Senate on Thursday (1st), where it will be processed as PL 2,903/2023. Although the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG) has signaled that he will make the matter proceed with “prudence and caution”, senators linked to agribusiness seek to speed up the votes.

The intention of the urgent request is to make the vote on the time frame be done directly in the plenary of the House, without going through the committees, as President Pacheco wants. The urgency vote must be symbolic, that is, it will not be possible to verify who voted against and in favor of accelerating the procedure.

The so-called temporal framework is a thesis that argues that the lands that indigenous peoples “traditionally occupy” are those they were in on the day the Constitution was enacted, October 5, 1988. Critics of the proposal say that the determination is arbitrary and that other factors must be taken into account to demarcate indigenous lands. The bill aims to standardize the constitutional text.