Marcos Chagas
Reporter - Agência Brasil

Brasília - The president of the Chamber of Deputies Ethics Council, Ricardo Izar (PTB-SP), said, yesterday (30), that, once a vote has been taken on the motion to deprive deputy José Dirceu (PT-SP) of his mandate, the tendency will be to speed up consideration of the other 13 motions that are still before the Council. He went on to say that five of the motions are already "well along." These involve deputies João Paulo Cunha (PT-SP), Pedro Henry (PP-MT), Pedro Corrêa (PP-PE), Roberto Brant (PFL-MG), and Professor Luizinho (PT-SP).

Izar informed that, as soon as the rapporteurs responsible for these cases submit their reports, he will immediately schedule a vote in the Council. Izar believes that at least two motions will be submitted to a floor vote in the Chamber by December 20: the cases involving João Paulo Cunha and Pedro Corrêa.

"We are working calmly, but we have deadlines to meet," he affirmed. He does not rule out the possibility that some of the deputies will escape expulsion. "Among the 13 cases, it may be that 1 or 2 do not result in mandates being revoked, but the tendency in the Ethics Council is to analyze them case by case, with all due attention," he said.

Translation: David Silberstein