Extraordinary deliberative session in the Senate decide on maintaining the arrest of Senator Delcídio Amaral (PT-MS), in Brasilia, on Wednesday (25). Delcídio was arrested this morning by the Federal Police in action Operation Lava Jet (Wilson Dias / Agency Brazil)
Advances in Operation Lava jet overlapped the historical corporatism Senate on Wednesday. In open voting, the parliamentarians decided by 59 votes to 13, with one abstention, keep in jail the Delcídio Senator Amaral (PT-MS), Dilma leader in the House. A year in which the Brazilians took to the streets to protest, the Senate made it clear:'re scared. And reasons abound: in addition to the collection of streets, parliamentarians are haunted by the juggernaut of Lava jet and the clear message of the Supreme Court (STF) to validate the decision that led Delcídio to prison - no one is above the law.
With the decision, the Senators got rid of an awkward embrace self-preservation in the face of sweeping revelations. Embarrassment, incidentally, was the most repeated word in the plenary speeches in historic vote tonight, where lawmakers have agreed to publicly accountable to the electorate - and complicated the lives of those who bet on the "mockery" as well defined in the judgment of this morning the Minister of STF Carmen Lucia.
Since March 6, when the minister Teori Zavascki, which reports the petrolão the proceedings in the Supreme Court confirmed the filing of an investigation against the senator PT for lack of evidence, an avalanche of evidence against the parliamentarian was taken by prosecutors. Delcídio was quoted by informers as Fernando Baiano and Nestor Cervero as a recipient of bribes in transactions such as the disastrous purchase of the Pasadena refinery in Texas. Today, the federal police knocked on his door in the face of appalling accusations: he worked for Melar the progress of investigations into petrolão. He promised a generous allowance to families of Cervero in exchange for silence Petrobras's former director. Articulated millionaire payment to own lawyer to betray the client and avoid a tipoff. And it was caught in explicit recordings of traficâncias against Lava jet. Promptly, the Presidential Palace and the Workers' Party rifaram Senator who agreed to be head of government when no one else ran into doing so.
The signs that the senators did not intend to expropriate a historical wear against the unanimous decision by the 2nd Panel of the Supreme became evident in expressive 52 supports the open vote on the Delcídio case. There was a facilitator event to vote on defenders in the dark did not need to be exposed publicly, just before the decision, the Minister Edson Fachin said the government leader's fate in the Senate should indeed be taken by open vote.
Moments before, Senate President Renan Calheiros (PMDB-AL), himself one of the investigated in petrolão also publicly defended the closed voting and risked in vain, a legal theory that could rid Delcídio: that the prison was not for crime in the act. The decision taken in plenary, there is no doubt that many of the senators, at least publicly, refused to sink in the mud with Delcídio Lava jet.
