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The analysis of the voting map that rejected the adoption of the printed vote this Tuesday (10) shows that the two main centrist parties, PL and PP, were crucial in burying Jair Bolsonaro's flag in the Chamber, also a pretext for his coup speeches.
Despite being allies of the President of the Republic, the two parties gave only 27 votes in favor of the measure, a third of their benches. Another 36 deputies from these two parties voted against and 18 were absent, which, in practice, counted as a vote against the PEC.
In other words, if PP and PL had fully mobilized in favor of the printed vote, the measure would be much closer to being approved — instead of 79 fewer votes (a PEC needs 308 or more votes), only 25 would be missing.
The PP leads the centrist party and has the Civil House, headed by the party's president, Senator Ciro Nogueira. The Chamber is also presided over by the party, with Arthur Lira (PP-AL), who on Tuesday said he hopes this matter will be concluded among the deputies.
Behind the scenes, the centrists never got involved in defending the printed vote, considering it a banner of radical Bolsonaro supporters. In the final stretch of the discussion, the aggravating factor of Bolsonaro intensifying his speech against the Powers still weighed against them.
In a different attitude from the big centrist parties, parties that oppose Bolsonaro, but are not part of the left, split, despite the public speech of their presidents against the printed vote.
In June, presidents of 11 parties met and reached an agreement to vote against the measure.
On Tuesday, however, the PSDB, MDB and DEM were divided. The PSDB gave 14 votes in favor of the measure, more than those who voted against (12). Five were absent, and Aécio Neves (MG) was the only one to abstain, which, in practice, counted as a vote against.
MDB and DEM gave 28 votes in favor of the measure and 33 against (between absentee and no votes). Gilberto Kassab's PSD leaned more towards the printed vote — 20 votes in favor of the measure and only 15 against (between absentee and no votes).
Party leaders attributed a large part of the votes in favor of the PEC to pressure from government members and Bolsonaro supporters. According to them, there was a strong offensive via social media and WhatsApp messages to convince lawmakers to approve the text.
Some ended up committing themselves on social media and did not want to back down, arguing that they would not frustrate the bases.
According to party leaders who worked against the Bolsonaro banner, although the result of the vote was not overwhelming, the fact that Bolsonaro personally pressured and even placed armored vehicles on the streets on the same day of the vote shows how much he was defeated.
The PSL, the party through which Bolsonaro was elected, voted overwhelmingly in favor of the PEC — 45 against 8 (between “no” and absentees).
Pressure from government officials in the final stretch of the discussions had a major impact on the evangelical bench.
The Republicans, a party linked to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, was one of the major parties that gave the most support to the measure. There were 26 votes in favor, only 3 against and 3 absent. The PSC, also linked to the evangelicals, voted by a narrow margin (11 deputies) in favor of the measure.
The opposition voted against, as expected, especially PT, PSOL and PC do B. In two acronyms in this field, there was greater support for the printed vote, in the PDT and PSB.
In the PDT, a party in which the printed vote was a historic banner, only six of the 25 deputies were in favor of the PEC. The others voted against it, in response to the polarization and the appropriation of the issue by Bolsonaro supporters.
