Unilateral action cannot resolve this impasse, says Arthur Lira about MPs

The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), granted a collective interview at this second fair (27) about the impasse in Congress regarding the processing of provisional measures (MPs). He affirmed that a “unilateral act” cannot solve the problem.

The president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), has signed an act that determines the return of the normal processing of the MPs, with mixed committees that have an equal number of senators and representatives. Lira follow against measure.

“The issue has to be resolved, yes, by a joint resolution of the National Congress that prioritizes bicameralism, without the overlap of one house over another. To keep the committee mixed, no level that [está] Today, from 12 to 12, without a deadline, it is very bad, we will not get out of this impasse”, he warned.

“The only possibility for the Chamber to admit to negotiating with the same committee is for it to comply with the rite that the other bicameral committees comply with,” he added. Lira also highlighted that, with an equal number of parliamentarians in the mixed committees, a senator would be “valid for 6.5 deputies.”

As PMs are Executive rules that are enforceable by law when published. Therefore, the texts must be approved by the Legislative Assembly within 120 days so as not to lose effect.

“Our criticism is parity, there is no expiration date and it will be, there is a mixed commission, which is infinitely less democratic than the system that people share in the plenary of both Houses”, he stressed.

Governors will apontaram à CNN That the current rite, without the mixed commissions, adopted during the Covid-19 pandemic, gives Lira more power and leaves it in a favorable position of negotiation with the Planalto. This is because the MPs begin to be analyzed directly in plenary by the Chamber and, afterward, by the Senate.

Meanwhile, many provisional measures that are in line for analysis are of extreme importance to the government, such as Bolsa Família, Minha Casa Minha Vida, and the organization of two ministries.

Likewise, Lira pointed out that the federal administration appealed to Câmara so that it would open an exception for “three or four essential provisional measures”, or that it should be reinforced by the Senate.

“The government, in return, in all the other committees, would send to Câmara a draft law with constitutional urgency to replace ipsis litteris The texts are MPs, excepting these three or four”, he revealed.

“All the conditions, without any kind of constraint, are established, so that a framework of a joint resolution is developed that obeys independently, the prerogatives of each one of the Houses,” he stated.

Leaders propose prazos and more deputies

The story of Arthur Lira takes place after a meeting between the leaders of the Chamber of Deputies, in this second fair (27). They propose the definition of terms and more vague to federal deputies in mixed commissions in the analysis of provisional measures.

There is no deadline established in the legislation for the mixed commissions and the plenary to analyze the MPs. Senators now claim a little time to analyze the texts in depth, or that Lira rebuts in the collective.

An idea brought forward at the meeting of leaders is that the mixed committees have to analyze the MPs in 15 or 30 days, and each plenary session in 45 days.

The president of the Chamber affirmed that he will take the proposals both for the federal government and for Rodrigo Pacheco, leader of the Senate.

*posted by Tiago Tortella, gives CNN