The former president () sent the PL to study alternatives to make the text of the Amnesty Bill to prisoners on January 8, according to the Sheet learned.
This would be a way of reducing resistance to the project in the house. A general assessment of the deputies is that the penalties imposed by the (Supreme Court) would have been harsh, but it is necessary to punish those who have depredated the headquarters of the three powers.
The request takes place after conversation with the mayor, (-PB), on Wednesday afternoon (9). O, only between the two, and was surrounded by confidentiality.
It is unclear how the project would be changed, nor if Bolsonaro and defendants accused of leading the coup plot would be included. But the former president’s allies evaluate that if he is not contemplated this time, the proposal will be approved in any way will help his case in the Supreme Court.
While assessing adjustments in the congressional text, Bolsonaro spoke to an audience of supporters on Thursday (10) that he wants “broad, general and unrestricted amnesty,” according to the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo.
The rapporteur of the project at the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission) was Deputy Rodrigo Valadares (Union Brazil). He is quoted to give the opinion with the changes also in the plenary, but Motta can replace it. A new name has already arrived at his table: Alfredo Gaspar (Brazil-AL), who was prosecutor. Gaspar and Valadares are aligned with Bolsonaro.
Allies the president of the house has said that still seeks a solution negotiated with the powers. He has been talking to STF ministers to deal with this possibility, still maintained seven keys. Already talked, for example, with Gilmar Mendes e.
Motta also states that he will bring the proposal to deliberate the leaders, when the urgent request for the project reaches 257 signatures.
An assessment between a wing of Bolsonarists is that those who have depreciated heritage and against which there are records, images could be convicted, but only to this crime, whose penalty is up to three years.
Bolsonaro does not comment on the meeting with Motta, but shows optimism. In an interview with the direct podcast of, he reaffirmed that the president of the house will guide the proposal.
“Since the campaign, he says ‘most leaders wanting to prioritize an agenda, we will meet the majority.’ He does not participate in the vote, so much so that the vote was by abstention. You don’t have to remind you of it there, he knows what is happening. If we can sign, he will be sure,” he said.
Motta is in a skirt between his commitment to the former president and allies’ party and the Supreme Allies, contrary to the analysis of the proposal. The reading of these is that it would open an institutional crisis, especially with the judiciary.
With the PL, the commitment, according to the parliamentarians, would be to guide in plenary when there were the necessary signatures. Motta’s surroundings even advocated the possibility of a special committee to analyze the bill, which would have a slower procedure, but Bolsonaro’s party rejects this possibility.
Faced with the impasse, Motta wants to gain time, and next week will leave the camera emptied. This Thursday, he canceled the traditional meeting of home leaders and, next week, determined that the work will take place remotely and with sessions earlier this week, to compensate for the Easter holiday.
Despite the anticipation of the sessions, which will begin on Monday night, it will not be in Brasilia, or many of the main leaders. Who will preside will be the first vice president, Altineu Côrtes (PL-RJ).
The PL, getting the signatures this week, should not be forcibly based on the proposal, even with the presidency of the house. Thus, by the calculations of deputies, the amnesty would be voted in three weeks.
This week, he motor over the revision of what he called any exaggerations in the penalties of the convicts for the acts of 8 January.
“I defend two points so we can win this agenda. The first is the sensitivity to correct some exaggeration that has been happening to those who do not deserve to receive punishment. And the second is the responsibility of not increasing the institutional crisis that the country already lives,” he said.
Motta also criticized the centrality of the theme of amnesty in the political debate. “We cannot be on one agenda. Brazil has many more challenges than that,” he said at an event of the São Paulo Commercial Association.
One of the main arguments of critics of the bill vote is that there are almost 2,300 urgent projects in the house. And at the beginning of his term, Motta announced that he would end up with a tendency to his predecessor, (PP-AL), to bring projects to the plenary without passing commissions.
PL deputies keep in the sleeve to counteract two moments this year when Motta used the emergency regime to approve Axé Music Day in February, and four projects of interest to the judiciary this week.
“Who has the power to guide is President Hugo Motta and, since he took over, has only voted emergencies in projects that are consensual at the College of Leaders. This is not the case of the amnesty project,” said Lindbergh Farias (RJ), PT leader.
Somos leader in the House, Deputy Rodrigo Gambale (SP), in turn, said the party is against the “wide and unrestricted” amnesty and that the current text is very bad. “The total and unrestricted amnesty of all acts since September 30, 2022 is not reasonable,” he said.
But, according to the parliamentarian, Somos is willing to vote in favor of a “modulated amnesty.” In this case, those who did not participate in the depredation of the public assets would be forgiven or if they were proven that they were not intended to give a coup. “Already those who commanded and those who funded cannot be unpunished, has to have a hard sentence,” he said.
