Costa Pinto: Senate will write Aécio's political obituary.

247 - Journalist Luis Costa Pinto stated this Monday, the 16th, that the Senate will write the political obituary of Senator Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG) when it votes on the Supreme Federal Court's decision regarding his removal from office and nighttime curfew. 

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Does he still deserve forgiveness from the plenary and from a Legislative branch that didn't even initiate proceedings against him in the Ethics Committee?
This is what the Senate plenary will be discussing starting at 10:00 AM on October 17, 2017: does the grandson of Tancredo Neves, a figure who diminished the political importance of Minas Gerais in Brazil, and president of the PSDB party who disgraced the organization, turning it into a bastion of unparalleled personalism never employed by figures with far greater stature than him, such as Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Mário Covas, José Richa, Franco Montoro, Euclides Scalco, Egídio Ferreira Lima, and Cristina Tavares, deserve a vote of confidence from his peers to remain immune from punishment?

With the thesis on which the other 79 senators will debate now depersonalized (Aécio will not be able to attend the session and the president of the Senate, Eunício Oliveira, will not vote), I dare say: the political obituary of Neves, Aécio, is being printed by those who watch with astonishment the dizzying degradation of someone who seemed born to lead and who, on the contrary, excelled at embarrassing and shaming his peers. There are 30 sure votes against Aécio in the plenary – therefore, he restricts his cabal to 49 colleagues from whom he needs to extract 41 favorable votes. I estimate that he could reach a vote of 44, but Senate employees are already making bets in which the Minas Gerais native appears with 33, 34 votes. And an experienced politician, accustomed to anticipating legislative outcomes, assures me that the still-president of the PSDB will not have 39 votes in the plenary. Bets are being placed on the green felt of the Blue Room.

And so Neves will die, who, even surviving the vote, will become an outcast of Parliament. He has always been a hostage to the bad alliances he forged. One cannot even say of him that "the King is naked," for he never achieved the Regency. Nor can one say that "the prince is in limbo," since he never acted on the political scene as a devoted follower of Machiavelli – actions that earned FH the nickname Prince of Sociology, and Lula the nickname Bearded Prince (one for science; the other for empiricism – both qualify the national political debate). Let it then be said to the common people, and let it be defined from now on: the rat is naked, in limbo.

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