PT may postpone request to lift Marconi's confidentiality.

247 – The Workers' Party (PT) may postpone its request to vote on breaking the confidentiality of the Goiás governor, Marconi Perillo. The party fears defeat in the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI) after allies from the government base "abandoned" the party in its offensive against Marconi during his testimony yesterday. Read more in Josias de Souza's article:

The PT should postpone the execution of its plan to bring to a vote in the Cachoeira CPI, this Thursday (14), the request to break the bank, tax and telephone secrecy of the tucano Marconi Perillo. The possibility of backing down gained strength last night, after the testimony of the governor of Goiás to the commission.

In this inquiry, the PT witnessed the failure of the strategy it had been hatching since the previous week to corner Perillo. What the PT members feared most was confirmed in the session: the supposed allies of the governing coalition left them practically alone in the CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry).

As reported here five days ago, the PT feared that a hidden agreement between the PMDB, its main partner, and the PSDB, its biggest rival, would materialize in the commission. Worse still, allies from other government parties – PSB, PTB, and PCdoB, for example – also softened their stance during Perillo's questioning.

Faced with this situation, the Workers' Party sensed that if it insisted now on voting to break Perillo's confidentiality, it might face defeat in the CPI plenary session. Hence the consideration of postponing the measure.

The Workers' Party (PT) went to the interrogation armed with the evidence collected by the Federal Police against the PSDB politician and his government. Perillo played the victim, offering either categorical denials or evasive answers in the best "I didn't know" style. And his antagonists found themselves devoid of new information capable of embarrassing their target.

Thus, if it fails to restore the government majority in the CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry), the PT (Workers' Party) will prefer to prolong the investigation rather than attempt to release Perillo's data, which is protected by constitutional secrecy. Lula's party has realized that, without the necessary resources, it risks turning Perillo from a suspect into a victim.

This Wednesday (13), the PT governor of Brasília, Agnelo Queiroz, will be on the bench at the CPI. The game will be reversed: the PT on the defensive and the PSDB on the attack. Hitting here, counter-hitting there, the essential is being relegated to the background: the factual analysis of the existing paperwork and the new data resulting from the breaches of confidentiality of Delta Construções, already approved.