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Brazilian Congress creates commission to investigate acts of coup d'état​

Brasilia, April 28 (RHC)-- The president of the Brazilian Senate and Congress, Rodrigo Pacheco, issued the request for the creation of a Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI) on the coup acts of last January 8th occurred in Brasilia (capital).

According to a Senate briefing note: "the commission will be composed of 15 senators and 15 deputies, with an equal number of alternates. In addition, the group will have one more member from each House representing the minority on a rotating basis.  In total, there will be 32 members.

The composition of the Commission remains to be defined by the parties represented in the respective chambers.  The CPMI will have 180 days to investigate the "acts of action and omission" which occurred last January 8, when pro-Bolsonar supporters violently broke into the headquarters of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches in Brasília.

According to the media Brasil de Fato, the creation of this Commission was initially supported by the allied base of former president Jair Bolsonaro "in search of a parallel narrative on the episodes of January 8 and everything that happened before."

It also refers that the Brazilian government's position recently changed in favor of this Commission after the dissemination of a video of the day of the attack in which the then minister of the Institutional Security Office (GSI), Marco Edson Gonçalves Dias, who later resigned, appears.

The Senate has explained that a "Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry is composed of deputies and senators, and is created from a request, with a fixed term of operation to investigate an event with powers proper to the judicial authorities, in addition to others provided for in the Chambers."

The Commission may "cross-examine witnesses (who are committed to tell the truth); listen to suspects (who have the right to remain silent so as not to incriminate themselves); arrest (only in case of flagrante delicto); request information and documents from the direct, indirect or foundational public administration; take statements from authorities."

According to a Senate briefing note: "the commission will be composed of 15 senators and 15 deputies, with an equal number of alternates. In addition, the group will have one more member from each House representing the minority on a rotating basis.  In total, there will be 32 members.

The composition of the Commission remains to be defined by the parties represented in the respective chambers.  The CPMI will have 180 days to investigate the "acts of action and omission" which occurred last January 8, when pro-Bolsonar supporters violently broke into the headquarters of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches in Brasília.

According to the media Brasil de Fato, the creation of this Commission was initially supported by the allied base of former president Jair Bolsonaro "in search of a parallel narrative on the episodes of January 8 and everything that happened before."

It also refers that the Brazilian government's position recently changed in favor of this Commission after the dissemination of a video of the day of the attack in which the then minister of the Institutional Security Office (GSI), Marco Edson Gonçalves Dias, who later resigned, appears.

The Senate has explained that a "Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry is composed of deputies and senators, and is created from a request, with a fixed term of operation to investigate an event with powers proper to the judicial authorities, in addition to others provided for in the Chambers."

The Commission may "cross-examine witnesses (who are committed to tell the truth); listen to suspects (who have the right to remain silent so as not to incriminate themselves); arrest (only in case of flagrante delicto); request information and documents from the direct, indirect or foundational public administration; take statements from authorities."