The rapporteur of the process that recommends the cancellation of Deputy Glauber Braga (PSOL-RJ), Deputy Alex Mante (Citizenship-SP), denied the appeal presented at the Chamber’s Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ). THE Glauber’s appeal asked for the nullity of the decision of the Ethics Council. 
The opinion of Manente, presented on Thursday (24), will still be voted at the CCJ at the next session, after a request for a view. He argued that part of Glauber’s appeal deals with the merits of the process in the Ethics Council, which could not be accepted by the CCJ.
“Some of the defects raised by the applicant concern the merits of the judgment made by the Ethics Council, a matter that escapes the jurisdiction of this Commission. Any foray into the merits of the disciplinary court would matter to usurpation of the competence of that collegiate and violation of due legal process”, He said in the report.
Regarding the allegations that he considered relevant to be evaluated at the CCJ, the rapporteur Alex Mante rejected all, including the ineptitude of the complaint and the absence of just cause; suspicion of the rapporteur; Offense to the internal rules of the Ethics Council; Curtailment of the defense and disproportionality of the penalty suggested by the board.
Glauber Braga suffers process for breaking parliamentary decorum. He assaulted a member of the Free Brazil Movement (MBL) on the House premises, after the militant offered the parliamentarian’s mother. If the rapporteur’s opinion is approved by the CCJ, the case still needs to be analyzed by the House Plenary.
Glauber says he is the victim of political persecution of the former mayor, Deputy Arthur Lira (PP-AL), for denouncing the so-called secret budget. Lira denies. The PSOL deputy made hunger strike nine days against this process, closed after agreement with the president of the house, Deputy Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB).
Opinion of the Rapporteur
Rapporteur Alex Mante said the complaint was just cause, contrary to what Glauber’s defense claims.
“The narrated facts are accompanied by audiovisual records that corroborate the version presented by the author of the representation, giving it minimal probative robustness,” he said.
Mante also denied Glauber’s defense request for the rapporteur of the rapporteur on the Ethics Council, Deputy Paulo Magalhães (PSD-BA), accused of not having necessary exemption and having a personal interest in the revocation of the parliamentarian.
“The processes underway in the Ethics Council are political in nature, which is why the inapplicability of the suspicion and impediments regime is found. The replacement of the rapporteur based on unmarked criteria would show foolish and even arbitrary,” said the rapporteur in the CCJ.
Alex Mante also said that he does not accept alleged defense curtailment because this complaint is already under analysis at the Supreme Federal Court (STF). Glauber’s defense complains that all the defense witnesses were not heard in the Ethics Council.
Regarding the complaint of the disproportionality of the sentence suggested to the deputy, the CCJ rapporteur said that this analysis would enter the merits of the process, which is an exclusive attribution of the Ethics Council.
“The dosimetry of the sanction is a typical matter of merit, whose reassessment in this recursal phase does not find normative support,” concluded Alex Mante.
Preceding
PSOL and PT parliamentarians came out in defense of Glauber at CCJ on Thursday. Federal Deputy Fernanda Melchionna (PSOL-RS) claimed that the cassation of the party colleague, if confirmed, will be a dangerous precedent for political persecution in Brazil.
“It is a precedent for democratic freedoms throughout Brazil, for councilors, legislative assemblies and, above all, for the democratic freedoms of social and popular movements. In fact, I warn the deputies who are not only in our field. Pau that hits Chico, hits Francisco. What we see here is a clear persecution of a term that has a combative profile and centered on the rights of workers and the secret budget.” He highlighted.
