The Chamber of Deputies approved, last Wednesday (25), the urgency regime for processing a proposal that provides for the application of the time frame in the demarcation of indigenous lands. Bill 490 has been pending in the Chamber since 2007 and has a direct impact on demarcation processes. In addition, the project aims to give the Legislature the final word on the subject. “He brings in his text the thesis of the temporal framework which is, in fact, an argument defended by rural producers in the sense that only those communities that were in possession of the territories in the enactment of the 1988 Constitution would have a right to indigenous lands. argument despises the whole history of Brazil and despises reality itself because we know that the indigenous people were expelled from the territories”, evaluates public defender Daniele Osório. With the approval of the emergency regime, the text began to be analyzed in plenary in the Chamber this Tuesday (30). If approved, it goes to the Senate for analysis and, if it also has the approval of the House, it continues for presidential sanction. The parliamentarians seek to anticipate the Federal Supreme Court that marked the resumption of the judgment on the timeframe for the 7th of June. “I believe that all this urgency, all this work that is being done is a clear signal to know what Congress thinks about the issue for the Judiciary. The Judiciary that here, there stands up to discuss some things does not wait. Now they themselves are bringing up a debate and a new judgment, wanting to increase the indigenous territory”, said senator Zequinha Marinho (PL-PA), vice-president of the Parliamentary Front of Agriculture for the Public Defender of the Union, however, all this haste is not justified. The agency also questions the legality of both the project and the timeframe thesis. “The Federal Public Defender’s Office has no doubts that the bill is unconstitutional for several reasons. First, because it brings this argument of the temporal framework that is completely divorced from the Federal Constitution. Second, because it does not comply with the international treaties that Brazil signed in the international level and third because the entire process of the project did not attend and did not listen to the indigenous peoples”, evaluates Daniele Osório. The executive secretary of the Indigenous Missionary Council (Cimi), Antonio Eduardo Cerqueira de Oliveira, sees it as yet another form of violence against indigenous peoples. “It is an insensitivity of the Legislative Power. Indigenous territories have this characteristic of protecting the environment more, more than any conservation unit, they manage to preserve more the ecosystem and, therefore, they bring a greater benefit to the very life of the human being, on the planet, therefore, all biodiversity. It is necessary to consider that an indigenous territory does not only benefit the indigenous people, it benefits the entire population.”
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