Maia warns that the Chamber will overturn Bolsonaro's executive order that interferes in universities.
The congressman stated that the provisional measure will be blocked "by a major agreement in the House." He had already stated that the measure is unconstitutional and attacks the principle of university autonomy.
247 - The Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Rodrigo Maia (DEM), said that if the Supreme Federal Court (STF) does not overturn Provisional Measure (MP) 979, Congress will do so. MP 979 allows the Minister of Education, Abraham Weintraub, to appoint rectors of federal universities and institutes during the pandemic..
The congressman stated that the provisional measure will be blocked "by a major agreement in the House." He had already stated that... The measure is unconstitutional. and attacked the principle of university autonomy. "My opinion is that this is an unconstitutional matter and that this issue should not be debated by provisional measure," he said.
"You can't edit a provisional measure on top of another one issued in the same year, with many similar terms. Soon you won't need laws anymore, you'll just keep issuing one provisional measure after another, with similar objectives, and you'll completely remove the relevance and importance of the Brazilian parliament," Maia told GloboNews.
"I hope that the government can make a decision in the next few hours so as not to force the president of Congress to return the matter, which is always an extreme decision. There are already, there are..." action in the Federal Supreme Court "And, looking at the constitutional analysis from the General Secretariat of the Chamber, I think it's very unlikely that the Supreme Court will not make a decision that goes in the direction of suspending the effects of this provisional measure," he reinforced.