Overview

• Chamber president Hugo Motta rejected the PL’s September 16 move to make Eduardo Bolsonaro Minority Leader, citing a Secretaria-Geral da Mesa opinion that the post cannot be exercised from abroad and that he failed to notify his departure.
• The veto allows his missed sessions to keep accruing toward the constitutional threshold that can trigger loss of mandate for unexcused absence from one‑third of voting sessions.
• The Ethics Council formally opened the PT representation for quebra de decoro against Eduardo and held the lottery to form the shortlist for selecting a case rapporteur.
• A day earlier, the PGR filed a criminal denúncia for coação, alleging Eduardo sought U.S. sanctions on Brazilian authorities to influence judicial outcomes involving his allies.
• On the council’s agenda as well, a separate disciplinary case against Gilvan da Federal advanced with defense witnesses scheduled to testify.