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Encaminhamento de votação de matéria
32 statements · 1 politicians · December 9, 2025
Statements by Marcos Rogério. 32 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified.
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Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen Senators, this is a very important moment for Brazil and for Brazilians.
We are voting on a measure whose objective is to guarantee an environment of legal certainty for Brazil, especially for those from the countryside.
I had the opportunity, Mr. President, Senator Omar, to be the Rapporteur for the Marco Temporal Law; I reported on this matter.
And this law had the mission of guaranteeing that environment.
However, the Government did not accept it, vetoed it; the National Congress overturned the veto of the Marco Temporal Law; subsequently the matter was taken to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal).
It is interesting, it is important to bring to the memory of those who are following us at this moment that the text we voted on in that Marco Temporal bill, dear Senator Esperidião Amin, who is brilliantly reporting this constitutional amendment at this moment, was a repetition of parameters created by the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) itself when it judged the issue in Roraima, the Raposa Serra do Sol case.
That was the decision that underpinned the bill.
In fact, the bill copied the conditions established by the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) itself for that case, but the fact is that the issue was judicialized.
The STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal), which proposed a mediation environment to try to reach an understanding, in the end was not able to present a feasible proposal that solved the matter, and today we are voting on this constitutional amendment to guarantee the basics: respect for the right to property – respect for the right to property.
Mr. President, Brazil today has about 2 million indigenous people in the country – in fact, 1.7 million indigenous people – an indigenous population that has grown a lot if we compare the data from 2010 to 2022.
I will not go into the merits of this issue.
Today we have in Brazil about 119 million hectares of areas that are demarcated indigenous lands.
If we consider, at this moment, the claimed areas, those that are under study or those that are already in the demarcation process, that means, Senator Omar, doubling the volume of indigenous lands in Brazil, that is, if we have 119 million hectares today, we would have double that for an indigenous population, Senator Amin, of less than 2 million indigenous people.
Therefore, it is incoherent. I could point out here that today we have 621 indigenous lands.
If we consider only what is being requested – and I will not go state by state here so as not to alarm – in my State of Rondônia...
(The bell rings.) ... we have at least 23 areas that are being claimed as indigenous lands.
Ladies and Gentlemen Senators, these are productive lands, my dear Senator Zequinha Marinho, Chair of the Agriculture Committee – productive lands – that they want to turn into indigenous areas.
So what we need to establish here is what the 1988 Constitution already set out: to give validity to the text of the Constitution.
No one is trying to take land from indigenous people, no one is trying to reduce the size of the territory that indigenous people have.
See how narratives work. At this moment, Mr. President – I will now move to my conclusion – in Rondônia there is an area where we are in an eviction process – eviction process! – a confusion created by the Brazilian State.
The Human Rights Committee was there; Senator Damares, Chair of the Committee, I, Senator Bagattoli and the federal delegation went together.
They are removing rural producers from their lands, lands designated by Incra with definitive title and public deed, dispossessing them because of an error by the State, an error in the establishment of the demarcation line.
And then? They simply remove them. Do the indigenous people there need more land in that region?
No. The indigenous area there is already one of the largest in Brazil, but they simply arrive, remove people, do not respect the document, do not respect the tradition, do not respect the history, because these are families that have been on the land producing for 40, 50 years.
And then the narrative is: "They are taking land from farmers."
The lands there... (The bell rings.) ... Senator Zequinha, are ten alqueires, fifteen alqueires when there's a large plot of land.
They are small rural producers settled by Incra, but do you know what the narrative is?
And so I want to bring to the attention of the Plenary that the federal delegation is defending there a negotiation, a mediation to secure the farmers' possession.
They are now denouncing the delegation, they denounced me and denounced Senator Damares for misinformation, because we are defending the farmer, and saying that there is a war between indigenous and non-indigenous people.
This war does not exist; it is a narrative from NGOs, from bad-faith actors who simply want to expand indigenous territory in Brazil.
So I conclude here by saying: this proposed amendment that deals with the marco temporal seeks...
(The bell rings.) ... to guarantee legal certainty for rural producers, but also an environment of peace and respect for our indigenous communities. Thank you very much, Mr. President.
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