Lower House Speaker considers "weird" police's operation in his house and office

Lower House Speaker Eduardo Cunha (member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party—PMDB), rejected resignation Tuesday (Dec. 15). During a press conference in the Green Room at Congress, Cunha considered weird the Federal Police's operation in his house and office exactly on the eve to decide on President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment and on the day the Ethics Committee had to vote the case against him.

"There are allegations and slush fund against the Workers' Party (PT) every day. Suddenly, [they] carry out an operation against the PMDB. It is weird for all of us. Whoever is a little intelligent knows that today, on the eve to decide on the impeachment proceedings, there is something weird in the air, which is beyond the regular situation of investigations," he told reporters.

According to Cunha, "no member of the PT, having the same jurisdiction that I have, is undertaken to any sort of operation. So far only those who are not members of the PT are undertaken to operations," he said. "I am a government's disaffected. I had been chosen to be investigated. Nothing more natural than to have them seeking revenge," he further declared.

Earlier Monday (Dec. 15) the PF served search and seizure warrant at Eduardo Cunha's official residence in Brasília, and at his private residence in Rio de Janeiro. They have also served search warrant at the house of two ministers: Henrique Eduardo Alves, head of Tourism Mininstry, and Celso Pansera, head of the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation, both members of the PMDB. Operation Catilinarian is part of the Operation Car Wash, which probes money embezzlement in Petrobras.

Translated by Amarílis Anchieta

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