On the eve of the analysis of the Dosimetry PL in the Constitution and Justice Committee (CCJ) of the Senate, the president of the collegiate, senator Otto Alencar (PSD-BA), argues that the vote that could take the agenda to the plenary only takes place in 2026.
The senator states that, if a request to view the text is presented, it will be submitted to the CCJ plenary regarding the deadline that should be adopted.
Regimentally, Alencar could decide monocratically by requesting a review of a few hours, which would allow the Dosimetry PL to go to the plenary on the same day.
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With disagreements regarding the text that was approved in the Chamber and contradicted by the fact that the president of the House, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), had announced the postponement of the Antifaction PL and the Security PEC to 2026, the senator claims to see no reason to rush in relation to dosimetry.
As THE GLOBE showed, the project is facing difficulties in advancing in the Senate and must be changed by the rapporteur, Senator Esperidião Amin (PP-SC). The text benefits former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and other convicts of January 8, 2023, but also opens a loophole to favor people involved in other crimes, which must be reviewed in the Senate. In a hurry for the Dosimetry PL to reach an outcome in Congress in 2025, the opposition is studying ways to ensure that the text does not need to return to the Chamber, due to changes on its merits. There is fear that the process in 2026 could be even more difficult, given the ideological clash accentuated by the election year.
Otto Alencar says that Motta left the votes on the Anti-Faction bill and the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) for Security until next year as “change” for the fact that senators contest the merits of the Dosimetry PL.
— If the majority of the CCJ is in favor of more time, I will follow the collective, I will feel the atmosphere of the session. I will submit the viewing time to the plenary, to be very democratic. Some senators even defend the rejection of the text that came from the Chamber, with the presentation of a substitute. The Senate should leave this analysis until later, since the Chamber made a “childishness” by not voting this year, as a retaliation to the Senate, on the Anti-Faction project and the Security PEC. This is payback, for not accepting the dosimetry as it came, leaving the cattle pass, with other criminals benefiting ahead. The moment Motta does this, he wants to retaliate against the Senate. And now, we’re going to do this at the drop of a hat. For me, we left it for later and we would create a Senate project to be sent there — he told the GLOBO.
Changes in the Senate
Responsible for the report being prepared by the Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ), senator Esperidião Amin (PP-SC) must incorporate amendments authored by senators Otto Alencar (PSD-BA), president of the collegiate, and Sergio Moro (União-PR).
The suggestions for changes reached the convicts who invaded the headquarters of the three Powers, as well as Bolsonaro and other defendants punished for the coup plot.
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Alencar says he sees no problems with dosimetry, as long as it is limited to those convicted of the acts of January 8th.
— Hugo must think it’s bad, because I want what’s right. There would be no problems with dosimetry in the parameters of January 8th — he adds.
The dosimetry project reached the Senate under the justification of correcting sentences imposed on those convicted of coup acts, but became the target of criticism after the approval, in the Chamber, of a text that changed the rules of the Penal Execution Law.
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As shown the GLOBEthe text allows regime progression with 16% of the sentence served for a series of crimes committed with violence or serious threat that currently require 25%.
These are criminal types such as violent exploitation of prostitution, violent interference in public tenders, arson, resistance, coercion during the process and attack on national sovereignty, in addition to the crimes of attempted coup d’état and violent abolition of the democratic rule of law.
The amendment presented by Otto Alencar, already filed with the CCJ, establishes that the provisions of the law apply “exclusively” to crimes committed in the context of coup acts.
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In justification, the Bahian senator maintains that, without this clear delimitation, the project approved by the Chamber allows the generic application of criminal dosimetry criteria, with the potential to benefit those convicted of other crimes. According to him, this expansion compromises constitutional principles such as proportionality, reasonableness, equality and legal security.
The government is also moving to stop the text from being processed. The minister of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations (SRI), Gleisi Hoffmann, cited the street demonstrations over the weekend, held in almost all capitals. “The streets of the country spoke loudly again this Sunday: No Amnesty! No reduction of sentences! Whoever was convicted of attacking democracy must pay for their crimes. Brazil does not want to go backwards”, she wrote on a social network.
