Senator files STF against Lira to guarantee MPs mixed commissions

In a new attempt to guarantee the return of the joint commissions that analyze the Provisional Measures, Senator Alessandro Vieira (PSDB-SE) filed, this Thursday (16), a complaint at the Federal Supreme Court (STF), addressed to Minister Alexandre de Moraes, questioning the “disobedience of the Chamber of Deputies with regard to the rite of processing the Provisional Measures”.

In the complaint, Vieira argues that “the face-to-face work of the National Congress has already been resumed and there is no longer any health emergency that prevents the installation of joint committees”. “The houses of the National Congress have, for some time, already resumed, as a rule, their face-to-face meetings, an absolutely necessary format, not only because it was directly desired by the Constituent Assembly, but because of the very political construction that is designed for the discussion and deliberation of normative proposals and which requires the physical presence of parliamentarians”, emphasizes Vieira.

In the action, the toucan senator requests, via an injunction, the resumption of the processing of the provisional measures in the manner provided for by the Federal Constitution, with the appointment of joint committees, preventing the maintenance of the omission of the president of the Chamber of Deputies. The parliamentarian had already filed a writ of mandamus against Lira, last Tuesday (14).

Faced with the complaints, the mayor, Arthur Lira (PP-AL) considered the possibility of making changes to the Constitution to prevent joint committees with the Senate from being resumed. “A rational way has to be found to avoid the return of joint committees, because they were undemocratic with the plenary sessions of the Chamber and the Senate. And we are going to find a way, even if it is by making a constitutional change, to adjust this issue”, he said in the March 15 session.