CPMI of the coup authorizes access to Bolsonaro’s vaccination process

After a clash between the opposition and the government, the Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI) that investigates the coup acts of January 8 approved access to data on the investigation that investigates the alleged fraud in the vaccination booklet of former President Jair Bolsonaro. The request of Senator Rogério Carvalho (PT-SE) approved requires access “in digital format, data extracted from cell phones and other evidence referring to former President Jair Bolsonaro, obtained by the Federal Police in Operation Venire, launched with the objective of investigating card fraud. of vaccination of the ex-president, family members and advisors”. The request also requests that the Director General of the Federal Police provide information on the case. The measure sparked protests from the opposition. Deputy Filipe Barros (PL-PR) argued that the request has nothing to do with the issue of the CPMI. “We in the opposition have no difficulty in voting on absolutely any requirement, with the exception of those that have no thematic relevance”, he explained. Deputies Nicolas Ferreira (PL-MG), Delegado Ramagem (PL-RJ) and Carlos Sampaio, in addition to senators Izalci Lucas (PSDB-DF) and Magno Malta, accompanied Barros and criticized the request as being unrelated to the CPMI. Then, the opposition submitted a request to delete the request for access to Operation Venire data, but ended up defeated by 20 votes against 11. Bolsonaro is investigated for allegedly changing his vaccination card to gain entry into the United States of America, since the country requires vaccination against covid-19 to enter the territory. Government supporters justify request Federal deputy Rogério Corrêa (PT-MG) came out in defense of the request criticized by the opposition. According to the PT, it was after Operation Venire that the so-called coup dialogues appeared on the cell phone of Mauro Cid, former assistant to former president Jair Bolsonaro. “So it’s obvious that we have to see what happened in the vaccination card survey to pick up – maybe that’s what Bolsonaristas don’t want – the dialogues of Mauro Cid speaking openly in a coup d’état, including the use of the Guarantee of the Law and the Order (GLO), with a draft of the GLO and documents, which brings Mauro Cid and Bolsonaro to the center of the CPI. Obviously, we cannot avoid this”, argued the parliamentarian. According to the author of the request, senator Rogério Carvalho (PT-SE), the request is not about the alleged fraud in the vaccine card, but rather about “the information from Operation Venire that led to the dialogues that have content about the 8th of January 2023”. The Federal Police would have found, during Operation Venire, a coup d’état plan on Mauro Cid’s cell phone, which would include a GLO draft, a mechanism that allows the Executive Branch, through the Armed Forces, to assume public safety in a given location . In another application also approved, the CMPI was more specific in requesting information extracted from the cell phone of Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid and former soldier Ailton Gonçalves Moraes Brito, also arrested in the operation related to alleged fraud in the vaccination card of former President Bolsonaro .

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