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Pela Ordem / Explicação Pessoal
26 statements · 1 politicians · June 16, 2026
Statements by Marcos Rogério. 26 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Democracy & Electoral Participation, Criminal Procedure, Penalties and Criminal Procedure, Criminalization of Financial Acts.
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Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen Senators, I will make a very succinct intervention regarding this issue, which has taken the national news this week.
About: preserve credibility and independence of democratic institutions
And, apart from what Your Excellency presented to the Plenary of the Federal Senate, the first conviction I have is that we must look at all of this very carefully, without wanting to undo the absolutely correct role of the institutions in investigating this case.
About: avoid politicizing investigations
And one must look carefully, because, at a moment like this, the political debate and the political environment, sometimes for reasons of the most diverse origins, try to put everyone in the same situation, in the same basket.
- Neutral
About: ascertain and deepen investigations into the case
It is a fact that there is an investigation; it is a fact that these investigations are being conducted, within the scope of the STF, by Minister André Mendonça and, within the Federal Police, by a group of investigators.
- Neutral
About: ascertain and deepen investigations into the case
This involves the Prosecutor General's Office, so it is not a single person conducting these investigations.
And there are two questions we should ask at this moment, aside from what Your Excellency brought to the Plenary.
- Neutral
About: ascertain and deepen investigations into the case
Look: the press reports indicate that an attempt or a proposal for a plea bargain had been rejected by the Federal Police; and, subsequently, it is said that the Prosecutor General's Office also did so, although there are still facts being examined within the Prosecutor General's Office.
- Neutral
About: ascertain and deepen investigations into the case
And here the argument... I am bringing a clipping that the press circulated, because no plea bargain has come to light, no accusatory document has been made public so far.
- Neutral
About: ascertain and deepen investigations into the case
But, based on what the press disclosed, it is said that the Federal Police reject it because, in what would be a cooperation agreement, there was no confession of crime by the person who would be testifying.
- Neutral
About: ascertain and deepen investigations into the case
So, that plea bargain should be dismissed because he does not confess to a crime.
- Neutral
About: investigate payments in foreign accounts as possible crimes
I question: according to the logic of what was disclosed, is depositing into an international account, in the name of a public official, the amount of US$30 million a crime or not?
- Neutral
About: investigate payments in foreign accounts as possible crimes
Is it a crime or a normal procedure?
About: verify grounds for rejecting plea bargains in investigations
So when it is said that the plea bargain is rejected because there is no crime being confessed, it seems to me that the report itself, either by mistake or for some other reason...
About: refrain from defending individuals in the Senate
What I wanted to say at this moment is that it is not for the Federal Senate, nor for the peers present here, to mount a defense of anyone.
About: ascertain and deepen investigations into the case
Your Excellency made your own defense, with the conscience you have and with the knowledge of all the information that involves Your Excellency's conduct, but it is up to the institution of the Federal Senate to demand the truth, to demand that the investigation be deepened, to truly identify those who are involved in this plot, involved in this scandal.
- Neutral
About: analyze the political context of accusations and investigations
Now, another fact — and I will end my statement — is that this happens precisely at a moment after Your Excellency faced, within this Plenary of the Federal Senate, a nomination of someone who was presented to be a Minister of the STF.
- Neutral
About: reject nomination to the STF
Your Excellency faced — and, for the first time in the history of the Senate, in the last 132 years, the Federal Senate rejected a nomination for Minister of the STF.
- Neutral
About: investigate orchestration of political attacks
Suddenly, Your Excellency becomes the target of a set of orchestrated attacks...
About: investigate political motives behind the accusations
And I repeat: I am not defending Your Excellency, I am pointing to the facts — I am pointing to the facts — and these facts need and deserve to be investigated, but it is fair to ask — it is fair to ask — why this is happening precisely after Your Excellency took that position.
About: verify content of collaboration proposals even if formally nonexistent
So, there are two reflections, and here I do not know whether the Federal Senate will have access, because, if the two cooperation proposals were rejected, they do not exist from a formal, material point of view, but it is necessary to look at what is being said, because it is said they were rejected because there is no confession of crime...
- Neutral
About: investigate payments in foreign accounts as possible crimes
But the report says that there was a payment abroad.
About: investigate payments in foreign accounts as possible crimes
Well, isn't that a crime? Wouldn't that be evidence of a crime?
About: investigate payments in foreign accounts as possible crimes
Wouldn't that be evidence of a confession of crime?
About: verify and check facts presented in reports and investigations
Now... So, it is merely... More than anything else, it is to put points to be checked and verified.
About: open CPIs and impeachment proceedings against government members
And here I say: the Federal Senate, the National Congress have the proper instruments to deepen the investigation, which is the instrument of CPIs (Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions), but, in addition, there is work being conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office, by the Federal Police and by Minister André Mendonça, whom I regard as one of the most serious men in this country.
Therefore, I consider Your Excellency's remarks this afternoon absolutely timely, which make us all reflect on this.
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