What remains to be known about the 8th of January and the role of the CPMI

The new images of the invasion of the Planalto Palace, on January 8, fell like a bomb in Brasilia. The revelation that General Gonçalves Dias, former head of the Institutional Security Office (GSI) and Lula’s strongman, circulated calmly among the vandals, forced Congress to finally open a CPMI on the case.

On the one hand, the opposition to the government wants to demonstrate that the Institutional Security Office (GSI) was, at the very least, negligent in protecting the seat of the Presidency. The governing base, in turn, is already articulated to dominate the commission and, with that, reinforce the discourse that the government was the victim of an attempted coup and block any attempt to reveal new details that compromise Lula and some of his ministers. most important, such as Flávio Dino, from Justice, and José Múcio, from Defense.

Negotiations for the composition of the CPMI are intense in the House and Senate. Government leaders want to seize the presidency and the commission’s rapporteur, but the opposition claims the posts because it came from the request for the installation. As everything indicates, however, the Centrão, which brings together the most powerful parties, which behave according to their own interests, will have the greatest weight in the formation of the collegiate. The mayor, Arthur Lira, will be a key player in choosing each member of that group.

In this scenario, what to expect from this parliamentary investigation? Is there a risk of repeating what happened in the Covid CPI, which became a weapon to persecute the right? How should the right prepare to investigate in depth what happened and avoid being treated by the governing base? Can new discoveries really feed or even change the course of the inquiry carried out by Alexandre de Moraes in the STF? Who should be called to testify? This is the theme of this Monday’s (24th) Second Opinion, with Renan Ramalho, Paula Marisa, Flávio Gordon and Fabiana Barroso.