On a new Boconist front to try to reverse the ineligibility of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), Federal Deputy Hélio Lopes (PL-RJ) filed a complementary bill on Wednesday, 5, in the House, in the House proposing changes in the law Clean record.
The text establishes the requirement of a criminal conviction for the ineligibility for abuse of economic or political power. In addition, it proposes that, in cases of administrative misconduct, political rights are only lost if the same practice is the subject of criminal proceedings that result in conviction.
That is, according to the project, it is necessary that, in addition to a decision of the Electoral Justice, for example, also a criminal conviction in the common justice.
According to the deputy, the project aims to “harmonize” the Brazilian electoral legal system to international commitments assumed by the country, citing the American Convention on Human Rights. The text also cites respect for the “principle of presumption of innocence and due process of law in the penal sphere as requirements for the restriction of political rights”.
Bolsonaro remains forbidden to run for elective positions by 2030, after being convicted by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) in 2023 for abuse of political power and misuse of the media in a meeting with ambassadors, and for abuse of political power during the holiday of September 7 in 2022.
Hélio Lopes is one of the former president’s first-order allies in the House and his longtime friend. The deputy even used the code name “Hélio Bolsonaro” during the 2018 election campaign, in which he was the most voted deputy in Rio de Janeiro, with more than 345,000 votes. In 2022, without the former president’s last name, the deputy made 200,000 votes less, but got the reelection.
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To the Estadãoone of the creators of the Clean Record Law, the electoral lawyer and former Judge Márlon Reis, said the bill has “the explicit goal” of “lacerating” the law to make Bolsonaro eligible again. “If there is a criminal conviction for the same fact, it is ineligible because of the criminal conviction, not the abuse of power. So it is a very truncated, poorly, ”he said.
This week, the strategy of changing the law has already been considered by pockets, who mobilize the approval of another complementary bill, proposed by Bibo Nunes (PL-RS) in 2023, to reduce the time of the eight ineligibility penalty to two years.
The proposal is being processed by the Chamber’s Constitution, Justice and Citizenship Commission (CCJ), commanded by Caroline de Toni (PL-SC), and is under the rapporteur of federal deputy Filipe Barros (PL-PR), who has not yet presented an opinion.
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Amid the strategy of the pockets to change the law and while not being able to make the amnesty project advance in the house, the new mayor, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), has commented on the subject. In an interview with CNN Brasil on Tuesday, 4, he said that eight years of ineligibility is “a very long time.”
In addition to the political attempt, Bolsonaro remains to exhaust the defense appeals in the convictions, which were sent to the Supreme Court (STF), to try to run in 2026.
