Wagner: Public Prosecutor's opinion on 'fiscal irresponsibility' is "another hard blow to the coup plotters"

Former minister in Dilma Rousseff's government, Jaques Wagner, says that the decision by prosecutor Ivan Cláudio Marx of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, concluding that the so-called "fiscal maneuvers" do not constitute a crime, "is yet another hard blow to the coup plotters, who are finding it increasingly difficult to justify the impeachment"; the accounting practice is the main basis for the impeachment request against President Dilma Rousseff in Congress; this Thursday, the Public Prosecutor's Office ordered the case to be shelved; "Despite being provided for in the Constitution, impeachment, as it is configured in Dilma's case, has become a great farce. A farce invented to bring to power those who have successively failed at the polls," says Wagner.

July 15, 2016, 14:04 pmUpdated May 28, 2019, 08:42 AM

Former minister in Dilma Rousseff's government, Jaques Wagner, says that the decision by prosecutor Ivan Cláudio Marx, of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, concluding that the so-called "fiscal maneuvers" do not constitute a crime, "is yet another hard blow to the coup plotters, who are finding it increasingly difficult to justify the impeachment"; the accounting practice is the main basis for the impeachment request against President Dilma Rousseff in Congress; this Thursday, the Public Prosecutor's Office ordered the case to be shelved; "Despite being provided for in the Constitution, impeachment, as it is configured in Dilma's case, has become a great farce. A farce invented to bring to power those who have successively failed at the polls," says Wagner (Photo: Gisele Federicce).

247 - The opinion of prosecutor Ivan Cláudio Marx, from the Federal Public Ministry, which this Thursday, the 14th ordered the complaint to be shelved. The accusation against President Dilma Rousseff related to the so-called 'fiscal maneuvers' "is yet another hard blow to the coup plotters, who are finding it increasingly difficult to justify the impeachment," stated former minister Jaques Wagner on Twitter.

Accounting practices are the main basis for the impeachment request against Dilma in the Senate. The prosecutor concluded that Dilma committed no crime. In his decision, Marx raised suspicions about "possible electoral objectives" behind the 'fiscal maneuvers'. He used the same reasoning and ordered the dismissal of other cases unrelated to the impeachment.

"Despite being provided for in the Constitution, impeachment, as it is configured in Dilma's case, has become a great farce. A farce invented to bring to power those who have successively failed at the polls," Wagner posted this morning. "It is the lie of the century in Brazilian politics, as Lula defined it," he added.

He further points out that the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, with yesterday's decision, "is saying that Dilma is honest and did not commit any illegal act" and that "in public and in private, through a slip of the tongue or due to the most crystalline sincerity, the fact is that the coup plotters themselves confessed to the coup."

After the decision, Senators should start a movement. to file requests to paralyze the impeachment committee in the Senate. Senators Gleisi Hoffmann (PT-PR), Lindbergh Farias (PT-RJ) and Jandira Feghali (PCdoB) have already filed a request for the committee to hear the prosecutor and remove from the records any reference to the 'fiscal maneuvers' of the Plano Safra, which, according to the accusation, were allegedly carried out by Dilma.