Rodrigo Pacheco: That constitutes an offense, a coercion, a constraint, an attempt to criminalize a head of a branch of government, a President of the Senate, who, for some reason, is being coerced by means that I dare to call mafioso – mafioso – of gangsterism, by someone who invents a fact and who constrains an entire institution, constrains the figure of a Senator and also constrains the very apparatus of justice, because it potentially constrains whoever is negotiating a plea agreement in which that fact simply was not stated.
Rodrigo Pacheco: So, at this moment, it is incumbent upon Your Excellency, in addition to here affirming the absolute lack of basis of this fact that Your Excellency says never existed, to, from your position as President of the Senate, urge the competent and responsible authorities to respond officially whether there is any information, official or unofficial, regarding the content that was published by the magazine over the weekend.
And if the response is, in fact, negative — that this fact never existed — then it is necessary to open a specific procedure to ascertain the circumstances of this, because someone creates a fact, uses a credible press; may use public institutions to coerce, blackmail and incriminate a head of a branch of government.
Rodrigo Pacheco: Because if Your Excellency is going through this today, tomorrow any Senator of the Republic or parliamentarian could be going through the same episode; any head of a branch of government, a President of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) or a President of the Republic, likewise.
Rodrigo Pacheco: Therefore, President Davi, in light of your remarks and considering them in the two dimensions you have presented, in those two hypotheses you raised, this second hypothesis — the possibility that this never even existed and was presented as the truth of an agreement or of a specific procedure — is something that deeply worries us and deserves a prompt and severe institutional reaction on the part of the Presidency of the Federal Senate. You have my solidarity, President Davi Alcolumbre.