According to the president of the Chamber, the objective of the text is to strengthen the fight against criminal organizations ‘without losing our sovereignty’
The President of the Chamber of Deputies, stated yesterday that the Legal Framework for Combating Organized Crime, reported by . According to the parliamentarian, the text brings together “the best of the project presented by the federal government and the best of initiatives debated within Congress”.
Still according to Motta, the objective of the project is to strengthen the fight against criminal organizations “without losing our sovereignty”. The president of the Chamber also praised Derrite’s handling of the proposal and declared that the text shows political maturity. “It’s proof that it doesn’t matter where the idea comes from. If it’s good for the country, we’ll take it forward”, wrote Motta on X (formerly Twitter).
On Saturday, Motta had already defended Derrite’s report. The president of the Chamber stated that the opinion “preserves advances” in the federal government’s text and “toughens penalties against crime”. “When it comes to security, there is no right or left, there is only the duty to protect,” he posted on social media.
Derrite’s announcement as the project’s rapporteur, last Friday, provoked strong criticism among government supporters, who spoke of “provocation” and “disrespect” for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Derrite took leave from his position as Secretary of Public Security in São Paulo to resume his seat in the Chamber.
The proposal – which came to be called “PL Antifaction” – is one of the priorities of and should be put to a vote in the coming days, as planned by the House command. The text was forwarded by the government to Congress in the wake of the mega police operation in Rio that left 121 people dead and brings together measures aimed at strengthening instruments for investigation, punishment and cooperation between security forces in the fight against organized crime.
On the same day that the project’s rapporteur was announced, Derrite changed the text presented by the government to equate criminal organizations with terrorist organizations. “It is not a question of classifying criminal organizations, paramilitaries or private militias as ‘terrorist organizations’ in the strictest sense, but of recognizing that certain practices committed by these structures produce social and political effects equivalent to acts of terrorism, therefore justifying equal criminal treatment in terms of severity and legal consequences,” he said.
As shown by Estadão, after the mega police operation in in less than a week, the Lula government and parliamentarians presented 51 bills on public security in Congress.
*With information from Estadão content
