Chamber invites Itamaraty to explain embassy that helps people in need; ministry says the practice is unprecedented
The committee wants to know how a diplomatic mission found the time to assist a Brazilian, something taxpayers have never seen in a consulate.
The Chamber committee has approved an invitation to the Minister of Foreign Affairs to clarify the support provided by the embassy. The motion passed unanimously, which only happens when nobody wants to be left out of the photo.
According to an aide who asked not to be identified, Itamaraty has opened an internal inquiry to find out how the service worked. The first hypothesis is a system error.
A Brazilian who has been waiting eleven months for a passport in Lisbon followed the news closely. He said he would also like to be invited to explain something, as long as someone answered the phone.
The committee said the minister has thirty days to reply. The deadline for issuing a visa is still under study, and the study is at the stage of setting up the working group.
A source in the Chamber summed up the house method: invite the minister, hear the minister, shelve the minister. The embassy, for its part, will now require a ticket number, a form and three months of patience from anyone wishing to be seen.
The embassy helped a Brazilian in good time, and the Chamber wants to know who authorised the miracle.
The reality behind the satire
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This story, published by a real newspaper, inspired the piece above. The Falsumundi piece is made up; this story is not.
