MADRID, 24 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The first vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, Marcelo Ramos, was removed from his post this Monday by the president of the institution, Arthur Lira, because he left the Liberal Party (PL) and joined the Social Democratic Party ( PSD).
“I was elected by the vote of 396 deputies and deputies and removed by one and following an order from the President of the Republic, (Jair Bolsonaro)”, the deputy has indicated on his official Twitter profile, adding that “he complies with the decision of the Judge Alexandre de Moraes, who did not judge the merits, but rather the incompetence of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE)”.
Marcelo Ramos announced that he would leave the PL, for which he was validated by the TSE, which recognized “just cause” in the change. Specifically, the Chamber’s regulations provide that in the event of a change on the part of the deputy, the member will “automatically” lose the position he occupies.
In this way, the election must respect the parties that were initially chosen for the positions: the PL for the vice-presidency and the Workers’ Party and the Brazilian Social Democracy party for the second and third secretariats, respectively.
Ramos was referring in his message on his official Twitter profile to the request made to the TSE so that the Liberal Party, his former party, did not act, directly or indirectly, to remove him from the exercise of his position as vice president of the Chamber, according to picked up by the newspaper ‘O Globo’.
However, Moraes retracted his decision and stated that the precautionary measure guaranteed Ramos the exercise of his mandate until “the recognition of just cause for his disaffiliation”, as reported by the newspaper ‘Folha De S.Paolo’.
Ramos has attributed the decision to pressure from the Brazilian president and has “ruled out” a possible coercion by his former party, while Lira has indicated that it is a “strictly regulatory” decision.
As the local media have explained, in recent sessions, Ramos has refused to vote on the government’s budget projects, as well as being critical of the positions of Lira, an ally of President Bolsonaro.