The Parliamentary Prosecutor’s Office of the Chamber of Deputies prepared an opinion in which it states that the investigation by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) into the leak of confidential data on electronic voting machines against Deputy Filipe Barros (PSL-PR) constitutes “political persecution”. The report was finalized last Tuesday (15), at the request of the congressman.
Barros is the subject of an investigation launched by the Federal Police last year, by order of the Supreme Court, after having announced on social media information about a 2018 PF investigation into the electronic voting system. At the time, he was the rapporteur of the special committee of the Chamber, which analyzed PEC 135/2019, on the return of the printed vote. In addition to the deputy, the President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro (PL) is also investigated.
“Inevitably we find that Inq. nº 4878-STF serves as an instrument of political persecution of deputy Filipe Barros, for his position in favor of the reestablishment of the printed vote in Brazil. The mantle of legal protection for the free exercise of popular mandates serves precisely to prevent/restrain persecutions such as those we see here,” said Chamber attorney Luis Tibé (Avante-MG).
Signed by Tibé and a group of prosecutors who are servants of the agency, the document informed that the request to request information from the PF was approved by the collegiate and that Barros would have received this information and forwarded the content to all the members of the commission and to the president. of the House, Arthur Lira. This is because, according to the opinion, the delegate would have sent a copy of the pieces “without reserving any confidentiality of the shared content”.
“This implies that the copies sent to the rapporteur of PEC nº 135/2019 are subject to the general rule of publicity, without any distinction with other external documents received by the House Committees. Hence, anyone could ask the Special Commission for access to the content, which should be fulfilled under the terms of the Law on Access to Information (LAI)”, he informed.
On Thursday (17), the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), Augusto Aras, asked the Supreme Court to close the investigation against the president and the deputy. Aras understood that the parliamentarian “only contributed to the mass dissemination of public information, of free access to any citizen”.
Sought, the STF informed, through its press office, that it would not make any comment. “Manifestation only in the records”.
Source: CNN Brasil