Pimenta: Maintaining secrecy in plea bargains could worsen the institutional crisis.

Rio Grande do Sul 247 - Federal deputy Paulo Pimenta (PT-RS) said that the decision to impose secrecy on the testimonies of the 77 executives and former executives of Odebrecht, approved this Monday, the 30th, by Minister Cármen Lúcia, president of the Supreme Federal Court, will "aggravate the country's institutional crisis".

"It is necessary that she make the 77 testimonies public. If this does not happen, an unusual event will occur. Members of the Court of Auditors, cited in the testimonies, will continue judging as if nothing had happened; ministers of the high courts, possibly implicated in the testimonies, will continue judging as if they had not been prevented from doing so; parliamentarians who are part of the core of the Temer government, and a Minister of State, will continue acting as if they were not part of this investigation," he states. 

According to Pimenta, the only way for society to be certain that this process will be conducted impartially by the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office is by removing the confidentiality of the plea bargains. 

The Odebrecht testimonies will serve to prove that the coup was nothing more than a reaction by corrupt politicians against an honest president, Dilma Rousseff, who failed to stop the Lava Jato investigation. It will be possible to confirm, for example, that Michel Temer requested and received R$ 10 million from Odebrecht's bribery department (read more). here), that José Serra received R$ 23 million from that same department in a Swiss account (read hereand that Senator Aécio Neves had personal expenses paid by the construction company, through his marketing consultant (read here).

Now, it will be up to the Attorney General, Rodrigo Janot, to request investigations against politicians with special legal privileges.