Parties that command ministries in the Lula (PT) government delivered 224 of the 370 votes in favor of approving the basic text of the .
The number corresponds to 60% of support for the report presented by deputy Guilherme Derrite, who is also Secretary of Public Security in the government (Republicans). The vote represented a defeat for the federal government, which tried to postpone the vote.
PP, PDT, União Brasil and PSD had more than 90% of their votes in favor of Derrite’s text. MDB, Republicans, PSB, Rede and PC do B had from 11% to 88% of the votes for approval.
The Psol parliamentarians were completely against it, while the PT had 65 votes to reject the report and two parliamentarians from Lula’s party did not vote.
The Chamber still votes on suggestions for the text. When voting ends, the PL will be sent to the Senate, where it will be reported by Alessandro Vieira (MDB-SE).
During the text’s processing, Derrite promoted ultraviolent changes, moving away from the original proposal of simply updating current legislation.
The target of a series of criticisms, the first version of the report that could only act against criminal organizations in states with the express approval of the governor, which turns something technical into a political one.
