Four of the five senators who make up the Senate bench voted in favor of the project that benefits the former president. The position differs from that of the Chamber, in which only 1 of the party’s 13 deputies supported the measure.
Cid Gomes (CE), Chico Rodrigues (RR), Flávio Arns (PR) and Jorge Kajuru (GO) were in favor of the project.
To the Panel, Cid Gomes claims to have voted with his conscience and says he disagrees with the “climate of polarization in which all we are going to vote for is the thesis of good against the thesis of evil”. “My assessment is that exaggerations were committed, due to a new law that had never been used by the Judiciary”, he continues.
He cites as an example Bolsonaro supporters who participated in the 8th of January and were sentenced to high sentences. “I honestly don’t think it’s reasonable. This doesn’t apply, in my opinion, to those who led, those who financed, those who planned”, he adds.
“This attempt at Manichaeism, forgive me, but Brazil is suffering a lot because of this inconsequential thing, where one lives off the other, right?”, he says. “And Brazil needs to turn the page on both, in my opinion.”
Only Ana Paula Lobato, president of the PSB in Maranhão and former deputy to minister Flávio Dino (STF), voted against the proposal. She says she respects her colleagues’ decisions, but criticizes the project.
“The change in the rules for calculating penalties now applies to the entire criminal system and can benefit, in addition to those convicted of the acts of January 8, people convicted of serious crimes”, he says. “Reducing the weight of penalties weakens the fight against crime and sends the message to society that serious crimes can have minor consequences.”
In the Chamber, deputy Jonas Donizette (SP), the next leader of the PSB in the House, was in favor of the project. The current leader of the PSB in the Chamber, Pedro Campos (PE), was one of the authors of a writ of mandamus that sought to suspend the project’s processing, after a drafting amendment that, according to government supporters, changes the merit of the proposal was approved in the Senate.
The strategy was used to prevent the project from returning to the Chamber of Deputies, sending the proposal directly for sanction or veto by the president (PT).
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