Overview
- On Thursday, November 12, 2026, Senate President Davi Alcolumbre rejected a request to read the petition to install a mixed parliamentary inquiry (CPMI) into Banco Master and said the Mesa Diretora had already decided the procedural question.
- The petition was filed by then-deputy Carlos Jordy and carries 238 deputies' signatures and 42 senators' signatures, a total reported to exceed the minimum needed to request a CPMI.
- Alcolumbre said the timing of any reading is his prerogative and that an appeal by deputy Marcel van Hattem will be sent to the Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ) at the president's chosen time.
- Federal bodies including the Ministério Público Federal, the Polícia Federal and the Supreme Federal Court are reported to be investigating aspects of the Banco Master case, a factor cited by Alcolumbre and other lawmakers who favor delaying a parliamentary probe.
- Lawmakers are split over next steps: some insist on immediate congressional scrutiny, others want the CPMI postponed to the next legislature, and the dispute could determine whether Congress runs a parallel political inquiry to ongoing criminal probes.