The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), granted his last statement to the press as president of the house late Saturday morning (1st). Just before, he attended the meeting that sacred a block of 17 of the 20 parties with legislative representation in the contest for the House command in the next two years.
The election for the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Deputies will take place from 16h. Lira, who has been in the presidency of the House in the last four years, highlighted the wide unit of parties around the name of Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB) to succeed him in office.
Also displaying the post the deputies Pastor Henrique Vieira (PSOL-RJ), in single candidacy, and Marcel Van Hattem (Novo-RS), candidate of the New Party.
“The House comes completely united, as has been behaved over the past few years, with almost unanimous decision of all the house parties. The exception is the PSOL-Rede Federation, and the new, which presented a candidate too, but the other parties Represented here now a mandatory administrative meeting ended, so that we could make the proportional choices in choosing the administrative body of the House, “said Lira.
“I hope everything is going on as it is happening. We should have a quiet election, I hope it will be made from the speech of the three presidential candidates initially, after a draw of the positions they will occupy in the electronic ballot box,” he added.
In addition to the three candidates, only Lira should speak during the session. The whole process is expected to last about two hours. The election will define not only the next president, but also the occupation of the other six most important positions of the House Command: 1st Vice-President, 2nd Vice-President, 1st Secretary, 2nd Secretary, 3rd Secretary and 4th Secretary, as well as four alternates .
“The result being confirmed and known, the next president, who we have no doubt that deputy Hugo Motta, who represents this house in a very firm, consensual, agreed way, will preside [em seguida] the opening of the rest of the vote of the members of the Board of Directors.
The favorite block brings together the PT, the party that runs the federal government, and the PL, the main opposition subtitle. The other members are PCdoB, PV, Union, PP, Republicans, PSD, MDB, PDT, PSDB, Citizenship, PSB, Somos, Avante, Solidarity and PRD. Together they represent 494 of the 513 federal deputies. Only the new (4 deputies) and the PSOL-Rede Federation (14 deputies) vie separately.
In 2023, when he was reelected for the presidency of the House, Arthur Lira also gathered a large block of parties in his favor and obtained the largest vote in history, with 464 votes of colleagues. The forecast is that it is to reach a similar level or even higher than that of Lira.
