The former president of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, confirmed on Monday that work is underway in the Brazilian Congress to form a commission of inquiry into the role that former president Jair Bolsonaro is said to have played in the political crisis and that one of its first measures will be to demand his return.
«Bolsonaro can and will be summoned. He has to come to answer for the crimes he committed. In addition to this, he will now be investigated in the first instance,» Calheiros has confirmed to the economic daily ‘Valor’.
Calheiros, who already participated in the special commission in charge of investigating the management of Bolsonaro’s government during the coronavirus crisis, said he is confident that by early February the work of this new parliamentary committee can begin.
One of the first actions of this Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) will be to demand the return of Bolsonaro, who has been in the United States since the end of December.
Calheiros has advanced that no one will fail to be investigated. «We have to be objective,» he has stressed. «We have the opportunity to investigate everything, who in the Armed Forces collaborated, which businessmen financed these acts, who in the political class helped,» he has said.
Among other measures to be considered by this future commission will be to talk to the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) to expel the governor of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, for his inaction during the «terrorist» and «coup» attack, as the authorities have described it, of the institutions.
Although he hastened to apologize, Ibaneis, an ally of Bolsonaro, was momentarily removed from office on Monday by order of the Supreme Court judge, Alexandre de Moraes, who accused him and the dismissed head of Security, Anderson Torres, of «omission» and «connivance» with the assailants.
Calheiros also took the opportunity to criticize his declared political enemy, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira, whom he accused of wanting to keep the ICC within the walls of the Senate.
«Lira was until yesterday embracing Bolsonaro and wanting him to approve the position of senator for life,» said Calheiros hours after other senators, such as Soraya Thronicke of Union Brazil confirmed the intention of several congressmen to move forward as soon as possible this new ICC.
The proposal of Thronicke, rival of Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the first round of the elections, has already been supported by other senators such as Humberto Costa, of the Workers’ Party (PT); Randolfe Rodrigues of Red; and Eliziane Gama, of Citizenship.
In the style of the committee in the United States that during this last year investigated the degree of involvement of former President Donald Trump in the assault on the Capitol, in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies there is also an initiative to investigate Bolsonaro for what happened, as advanced by Rogério Correia, of the PT «Only with Bolsonaro imprisoned will we have peace and democracy. I will not rest until this does not happen. I will permanently express myself in this sense during my mandate. I am already committed to request an ICC on these events,» he wrote on his Twitter profile.
In the face of the accusations, Bolsonaro has disengaged and denied any kind of responsibility, as they have been denouncing since the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, recalled that the former president has led a «conflictive transition» by not recognizing the results of the elections and defending alleged theories of fraud.
Thousands of followers of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro have stormed this Sunday the headquarters of the National Congress, the Planalto Palace and the Supreme Court in Brasilia, after several months of mobilizations and violent protests due to their dissatisfaction with the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the polls.
As a consequence, Lula has decreed the federal intervention of Brasília to assume security powers. In a joint communiqué, the three state powers assaulted have stressed their «unity» to confront this type of attacks which they have described as «terrorism» and «coups».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
