Amnesty is a forgiveness granted by law to certain infractions. It suspends criminal or civil punishments. Needs to be approved in the House and Senate, and then sanctioned by the President of the Republic
The 1979 Amnesty Law, for example, granted forgiveness to political crimes committed in the country between 1961 and 1979, including the period of military dictatorship. The proposal released prisoners of the regime and forgave repressive acts of the state
The first proposal in Congress to discuss an amnesty those involved in recent scammer acts came in November 2022, before the 8/1 attacks. The focus was on demonstrations after the defeat of Jair Bolsonaro
The discussions gained strength after attacks on the Three Powers Square in 2023, and also after formal accusations against Bolsonaro and other authorities of his government for coup attempt attempt
Boconists began to work for the approval of an urgent request to vote on an amnesty project to 8/1
One of the proposals contemplated people who participated in the acts in the midst of a multitude of protesters, non -leaders or articulators
Bolsonaro gave public speeches in favor of the measure: he suggested “rubbing the past” and defended what he called pacification through forgiveness to the January 8 convicts
Along the way, attempts were accumulated to change the proposal to include Bolsonaro. He denied working in his own case, but mobilized his base and sought support at Congress
The project even lost strength at various times. The agenda was emptied in front of other topics, and there was resistance from center parties, left, Senate summit and STF ministers
Near the judgment of the central core of the coup plot, the joints intensified. Several parties of the centrão in the House began to support the approval of an amnesty
Tarcísio de Freitas, governor of São Paulo, began to actively negotiate his amnesty behind the scenes and in public, conducting political mobilizations with Congress
The movement became part of a package for the 2026 elections, in a format in which Bolsonaro would not be arrested but would remain ineligible. His most likely successor as a candidate would be Tarcisio
The Senate summit presented several points of resistance to the proposal. The president of the house, David Alcolumbre, said he would not vote for a amnesty that favored Bolsonaro. He admitted only one proposal to reduce penalties
In the STF, Alexandre de Moraes stated that pacification without punishment does not exist, making it clear that amnesty before the application of penalties would be unacceptable
Luís Roberto Barroso pointed out that an amnesty would only be legitimate if granted after the conviction, and that this would be a prerogative of Congress, signaling being opposed to an STF intervention to declare it unconstitutional
The proposal faces a sequence of impasses in both the legal and the political world, but it is one of the main platforms of the right -handed right
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