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Minister Dias Toffoli of the Federal Supreme Court ruled Saturday morning that the election of the Senate Speaker would be by secret ballot. He responded to a request from the Solidarity and MDB parties.
The session that will define the new command of the House is scheduled for Saturday at 11 am, after being postponed Friday night (1st), after much turmoil and quarreling between senators.
In the decision, Toffoli overturned the vote organized by Senator Davi Alcolumbre (DEM-AP), who defined the open vote for the election and requested that the decision be communicated to Senator José Maranhão (MDB -PB). the Minister of the STF, will chair the work of Saturday's session.
"I defend the request, so that the elections of the members of the Presidential Council of the Federal Senate take place by secret ballot, so I declare the nullity of the voting process on the point of order referred to the plenary by the Senator from the Republic of David Alcolumbre, concerning the form of voting for the positions of the board of directors, the senator of the Republic José Maranhão, who, as announced publicly, will chair the work, "said the decision
The request was sent to the badysis of Minister Dias Toffoli because he is on duty this weekend at the Federal Supreme Court.
Senator Cid Gomes (TDP-EC) proposed to suspend the session on Friday, November 1 st in an attempt to put an end to the differences over the choice of Speaker. whoever will lead the meeting, which was approved by a token vote (not counting votes)
The first point of divergence was the conduct of the work of Senator Davi Alcolumbre (DEM-AP).
See how the session unfolded and understand the controversy presented in the video above [19659011] One of the wings argued that he was not chairing the session because he was a candidate for the presidency, another wanted to suspend the session in order to allow the parliaments to agree on the choice of the person responsible for the session.
Senators went to One group argued that the vote should be open, while another advocated the secret ballot.
Alcolumbre then put the proposal to the vote. By 50 votes to 2 (1 abstention, 28 votes against), the plenary opts for an open vote.
But there were a lot of complaints because some senators claimed that he had no legitimacy to lead the vote.
The Senator Kátia Abreu takes a file of the Senate Council
In a moment more (PDT-TO) came to occupy the presidential office and took from the hands of Alcololbre the file in which were the documents relating to the session (see video above)
She said that if Kátia Abreu took the briefcase, went to the plenary and made a speech against the senator, then returned to the Council of presidents and sat in the chair next to the chair of the president
By the MDB, party candidate to the presidency of the Senate, Renan Calheiros criticized the agreement on the postponement of the session and declared in an interview that "there could be no agreement" against the Constitution, the democrati e, freedom of expression ".
According to him, David Alcolumbre acted as if he could" everything ". "If David [Alcolumbre] can do all that, I'm going to do the same thing as Juscelino [Kubitschek] in 64. I'm going to vote for David because he can do it …
Throughout the session , Renan clashed with David Alcolumbre
In an interview after the session, Davi Alcolumbre said that the company had to "rebel" if a senator overturned the open vote in the election to the presidency. Senator Davi Alcolumbre explains why he suspended his sitting in the Senate
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