Parliamentarians want the Attorney General of the Republic to investigate possible crime in the promise of invasion mentioned by João Pedro Stédile in a video published on social networks
A ruralist bench in Congress sent an official letter to the Attorney General of the Republic, Augustus Arascalling for the preventive or temporary arrest of the leader of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST), João Pedro Stédile. The document was filed this Wednesday, 12, by the Agricultural Parliamentary Front (FPA). In a video published on social media, Stédile says that the MST is planning to occupy land on rural properties throughout the month of April. “There will be mobilizations in all states, be it marches, vigils, land occupations, the thousand and one ways of putting pressure on the Constitution to be applied and that unproductive lands be expropriated and handed over to camped families”, says the MST leader in an excerpt from the video.
The same request for an immediate investigation and arrest was sent to the Attorney General of Justice of São Paulo, Mario Luiz Sarrubbo, and to the Secretary of Public Security of São Paulo, Guilherme Muraro Derrite. By official letter, the FPA also sought out the Attorney General of the Union, Jorge Messias, asking for “measures to be taken so that no act that jeopardizes the right to property is perpetrated” by the movement. In the document to the authorities, the FPA mentions that it represents 340 parliamentarians in Congress. The president of the front, federal deputy Pedro Lupion (PP-PR)classified Stédile’s speeches as being harmful to the rule of law and the Constitution. “These attitudes continue to generate a climate of insecurity in the countryside for our rural producers. We, at the FPA, are outraged and made a point of signing the letters so that the author of these threats is held accountable, ”he said.
According to data from incra, 16 occupations were registered in rural properties in the country since the 1st of January of this year until now. Seven of them were moved by the MST and nine by the National Front of Country and City Struggles (FNL). Still according to Incra, the number already exceeds the number of occupations that occurred throughout 2019, when 11 land invasions were recorded.. One of the letters sent by the ruralists was addressed to Minister Bruno Dantas, from the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU), in which they ask for greater supervision of Incra’s performance in the current government. “This Court of Auditors must be attentive to respect for art. 2, § 7, of Law 8.629/1993, in order to prevent public money and the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform from acting contrary to the legal text and allowing criminals to benefit”, says an excerpt from the letter. For the bench leader, it is the responsibility of the federal government to articulate with allied social movements. “The President of the Republic even wore an MST cap in the campaign, so I believe they can dialogue to prevent these situations from occurring,” said Lupion.
A Young pan contacted the Planalto Palace and Incra to find out if the federal government will take any measures in an attempt to prevent land invasions, but, so far, has not received a response. Earlier, the Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA) filed a request for an injunction at the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to immediately suspend the land invasions organized by the MST and the FNL. It also requests that the main social networking platforms be notified to take down the profile or account of the movements and leaders in order to avoid the publication of content that incites land invasion.