The project that reduces the sentences of (PL) and others convicted of the attacks on January 8, 2023, has lost traction and is at risk of being rejected by the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission).
The rapporteur of the proposal, Esperidião Amin (PP-SC), will present his report by Wednesday (17). It is possible that the vote in the collegiate will also be on Wednesday. The initial plan was for the text to be approved and then to be deliberated in the Senate plenary. This scenario became less likely throughout this Tuesday (16).
Senators believe that it is necessary to make a change to the project so that it can be approved without creating a loophole for those convicted of other crimes unrelated to January 8th. In this case, the text would most likely return to the Chamber for further deliberation, making definitive approval by Congress difficult in 2025.
Now, the Senate leadership is evaluating whether to approve an alternative report in the CCJ, authored by senator Alessandro Vieira (MDB-SE). He suggests that the Chamber’s project be rejected and that the senators prepare a new proposal. In this case, the discussion returns to square one from a legislative point of view.
The president of the Senate has the power to put the project to a vote in the plenary even if the text is rejected by the CCJ. This scenario, however, is considered unlikely by allies of the head of the House, .
The leader of the MDB, Eduardo Braga (AM), for example, announced this Tuesday that the party will be against the project.
“Despite the issue of January 8 deserving a review of dosimetry, the way the project reached the Senate cannot support the MDB,” he told journalists. “There are no conditions to make a change without this text returning to the Chamber with the defects contained in the project that reached the Senate”, declared Braga.
