Eduardo Cunha decides to "speak out"; Brasília and Temer experience tension with new revelations.
There is growing speculation that he will create major difficulties for Temer, making his interim government unviable. Similarly, there is high tension regarding the possibility of him involving ministers of the Supreme Federal Court.
Congressman Eduardo Cunha is still not entirely convinced about the possibility of a plea bargain. However, since Saturday he has been personally convening an emergency meeting with allied parliamentarians this Monday, when he will announce a series of positions, including his definitive removal from the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies.
But the big question mark hanging over the nation's capital is what he has decided to say publicly after meeting with his allies, as he is expected to publicly oppose the Temer government.
Some deputies confirmed the invitation to the meeting and said that Cunha feels abandoned by all the supporters and members of the grand conspiracy to remove President Dilma Rousseff from the Planalto Palace through the opening and consolidation of power in the Federal Chamber.
PLEA BARGAIN AND OTHER TARGETS
In a cerebral manner, meaning far from being driven by emotion, Eduardo Cunha is building his own position in the face of numerous lawsuits in which he has been criminally accused of misappropriating public funds; therefore, there is a feeling among his allies that he will not fall alone.
There is growing speculation that he will create major difficulties for Temer, making his interim government unviable. Similarly, there is high tension regarding the possibility of him involving ministers of the Supreme Federal Court.
Until the early hours of Sunday, he was sharing with allies a position that was not yet finalized regarding a plea bargain.
Temer, PMDB, and PSDB in Panic
The abandoned position has led Cunha to the apex of a personal strategy to alleviate the burden and responsibility placed upon him, not only for the schemes and strategies of major deals via amendments, etc., but also for his fundamental role in the impeachment. Therefore, he refuses to live in the solitude imposed upon him, even knowing and acknowledging that more rigorous measures, including his imprisonment and that of his family members, may be underway.
It is in the face of this sentiment that interim president Michel Temer, and all the leaders of the PMDB and PSDB parties, are losing sleep because it could sink the entire scheme.
As they say in the Torre neighborhood, "you reap what you sow."
In short, the entire conspiracy, also considered a coup, has its days numbered with revelations – the most scandalous possible – affecting Brazil's young democracy without the need for the horrors of now, because power must emanate from society, from the people, and not from a constructed form.
* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.
