During the morning of this Sunday, the Minister Secretary General of Government, George Jackson, addressed the legislative process of the project that grants an amnesty to those detained for certain crimes in the framework of the social outbreak of October 2019.
After last Monday the Secretary of State announced the “extreme urgency” to the project, together with Senator Fabiola Campillai, there was annoyance in the PPD and the PS, who criticized the minister for not having discussed the issue before with the benches. This is because in the Senate there is no certainty that they will have the necessary votes for the bill to move forward. Thus, this fact meant Jackson’s first setback in Congress.
“We, at least, try to clear up those doubts for parliamentarians by saying: Here is a project that all the senators of what we call the ruling party agree on. There is no one who has told me that I am going to vote against, because in addition, a much broader consensus was achieved and modifications in the Constitution Commission that make it much more limited, ”said the minister in the Central Table program of Channel 13.
Jackson mentioned that, after the district week (which will take place between March 28 and April 1), conversations will be held to see what they will do with the processing of the project: “You can renew the urgency and give it one more week and thus see if we can get the votes, that our priority is to be able to make this not only vote but hopefully it can be favorable”he indicated.
He added that “We still need to get support, but I think that, once people read the project, they realize that it is not the project with which it is caricatured from the beginning of the creation of this project, which effectively brought a much more catalog of crime, it brought more levels of applications for the pardon and today it is super limited and that, I hope that it can generate greater consensus ”.
This is how Jackson opened up to postponing the vote on the initiative for a week to achieve the necessary support and avoid its rejection in the Upper House. “If the votes are not there on Tuesday, if the quorum is not there, I am at least in favor of allowing one more week (…) if one more week can get the votes, I am at least available”, Indian.