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      According to the congressman, Pimentel's trial should be postponed until 2017.

      Re-elected president of the Legislative Assembly, Deputy Adalclever Lopes (PMDB) stated that he will await a ruling from the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to decide whether or not the governor of Minas Gerais, Fernando Pimentel, will be prosecuted by the Superior Court of Justice (STJ). According to the deputy, STJ Minister Herman Benjamin had extended the deadline for the Legislative Assembly to take a position; initially, the deputies had until this Friday to decide whether or not to authorize the opening of proceedings against Pimentel. "It's a matter that, in this legislature, I can say in this two-year period, will not return to the agenda, because it's before the Supreme Court," Lopes stated.

      Re-elected president of the Legislative Assembly, Deputy Adalclever Lopes (PMDB) stated that he will await a ruling from the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to decide whether or not the governor of Minas Gerais, Fernando Pimentel, will be prosecuted by the Superior Court of Justice (STJ); according to the deputy, STJ Minister Herman Benjamin had extended the deadline for the Legislative Assembly to take a position; initially, the deputies had to decide by this Friday whether or not to authorize the opening of proceedings against Pimentel; "It is a matter that in this legislature, I can say in this two-year period, will not return to the agenda, because it is in the Supreme Court," said Lopes (Photo: Leonardo Lucena).

      Mines 247 - Re-elected president of the Legislative Assembly, Deputy Adalclever Lopes (PMDB) stated that he will await a ruling from the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to analyze whether or not the governor of Minas Gerais, Fernando Pimentel, will be prosecuted by the Superior Court of Justice (STJ). If it depends on the Assembly...

      "It's an issue that, in this legislature, I can say in this two-year period, will not return to the agenda, because it's before the Supreme Court," stated the re-elected president. The account was published in Estado de Minas.

      According to the congressman, the STJ (Superior Court of Justice) minister Herman Benjamin had extended the deadline for the Legislative branch to take a position; this deadline has been extended. Initially, the congressmen were supposed to decide by this Friday whether or not to authorize the opening of proceedings against Pimentel. 

      On the agenda of the STF this Thursday (1) is a direct action of unconstitutionality filed by DEM that could take away from the Assembly the power to decide whether or not Pimentel can be prosecuted by the STJ. The action asks that the article of the Minas Gerais Constitution be validated which provides for the acceptance of the complaint and the immediate removal of the head of the state Executive in cases of common crimes. 

      Pimentel was the target of Operation Acronym, which investigates whether he granted advantages to construction companies in exchange for bribes when he was Minister of Development. He denied the accusations.