The Chamber of Deputies approved by 310 votes in favor and 142 against the summons of Guedes to be investigated on Wednesday, October 13.
Considered the most powerful minister in the Bolsonaro government, Guedes was summoned because he did not get the backing of the ruling bloc in Deputies.
According to the Folha de San Pablo newspaper on Thursday, the head of the Lower House, the ruling party Arthur LiraHe is not willing to assert his influence in favor of the minister.
“Guedes’ head is being roasted but will not be completely burned now, “said columnist Vinicius Torres Freire in Folha.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published the Pandora Papers in which it appears that Guedes owns an offshore in the British Virgin Islands, created in 2014 with 9.5 million dollars.
The president of the Central Bank, Roberto Campos Neto, also has an account in Panama.
“Guedes is outraged with the repercussion that the story has gained” from his offshore account, the newspaper O Globo published this Thursday, which consulted sources linked to the minister.
O Globo mentions that while Campos Neto was not summoned to Deputies, Guedes was and will have to appear in an adverse political climate.
Some deputies already “feel the smell of blood” that may prevail in the Chamber next week, O Globo published.
Lobbying on how parliamentary groups will behave should last until the day of the hearing.
Government congressmen can oscillate between criticism and support, while the opposition will attack harshly against the official from whom it demands the resignation,
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