Brasilia, May 25 (Prensa Latina) The Brazilian Congress will today set up the Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI) into the anti-democratic acts of January 8 in this capital, when the headquarters of the three powers were raided and looted.
According to the Senate agency, once established, the body will elect its president, which will consist of 32 regular parliamentarians, including 16 senators and 16 alternates, plus the same number of alternates.
The CPMI has 180 days to investigate the coup actions and can submit its findings to the Attorney General’s Office to provide evidence for the criminal trial.
Radical supporters of defeated President Jair Bolsonaro enjoyed the establishment of camps under the guise of peaceful protests and free speech in cities, and in particular in Brasilia, against the outcome of October’s elections and the third-term seizure of power by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
But on January 8, on the orders of almost seven thousand Bolsonaro extremists (supporters of the former military who appropriated the yellow color of the flag) broke in and looted the premises of the National Congress, the Federal Court of Justice and the Planalto Palace, the seat of the executive branch . .
Despite the fact that behavioral analysis and suspicious behavior allowed us to anticipate actions by individuals or groups with terrorist intent, police forces, particularly those of the Federal District (DF), barely responded.
The attempted coup culminated in the arrest of many of the former army captain’s supporters, including former DF Secretary of Public Security Anderson Torres, who served as justice minister in the Bolsonaro government.
This Thursday’s inauguration hearing in Congress will be chaired by Senator Otto Alencar, the most senior member of Parliament.
At the same time, investigations into the anti-democratic initiative in the STF continue, a process that Bolsonaro had advocated.
The Attorney General’s Office has reported 1,390 people for various crimes, including crimes of violent overthrow of the democratic rule of law, coup d’etat, aggravated criminal damage, criminal association, incitement to crime, destruction and deterioration or uselessness of specially protected assets.