The rapporteur of the project that reduces the sentences of those convicted of the attacks and benefits the former president (PL) recommended the approval of the proposal with an amendment to prevent it from also reaching people arrested for other crimes.
Senator Esperidião Amin (PP-SC) and other members of the Bolsonarist wing in the House want the text to be approved quickly. As shown by Sheetafter realizing that it would benefit prisoners from different areas.
The dispute around this topic became about the need or not for a new analysis by the Chamber in light of this change in the Senate.
Amin and his allies claim that the change is a simple wording adjustment and that, as the project has already been approved by the Chamber, it could be sent for sanction after deliberation by the Senate.
The rapporteur stated that the discussion in the Chamber was about the penalties of January 8, so the change, made through an amendment presented by senator Sergio Moro (União Brasil-PR), would only be editorial.
Other senators, however, believe that the change is related to the merit of the project. For them, if this version prevails, a new analysis by the Chamber will be necessary, which would probably push the end of the project’s processing in Congress to 2026.
(-AL) argued that this is a change on the merits. “We cannot vote on a matter like this at the drop of a hat,” he declared. Otto Alencar, president of the panel where the proposal is debated, also said that it was an important change, not a draft one.
There was a specific vote that decided that the change is editorial and therefore does not require a new submission of the project for analysis by the Chamber.
The proposal is being discussed by the Senate’s CCJ (Constitution and Justice Committee), which is expected to discuss it this Wednesday (17). If the board approves, the text could go to the House plenary in the following hours.
Government officials wanted to postpone the deliberation through a request for review (more time to analyze) for a week. As the Legislative recess officially begins next Tuesday (23), this delay would postpone the analysis of the proposal for next year.
The request for a review was made, but the president of the commission granted a deadline of just four hours, instead of a week.
In the last few days. Allies of the president of the House, (-AP), say that he would be unlikely to force a deliberation in the plenary after a possible rejection of the project in the collegiate.
This Wednesday morning, however, the project showed signs of having regained traction. The main indication was a speech by the former president of the Senate (-MG) in favor of the proposal. Pacheco commanded the House at the time of the January 8 attacks, and is one of Alcolumbre’s main allies.
If the proposal comes into force in the form in which the deputies approved it, the project could, in theory, reduce the time that Bolsonaro will spend in the closed regime of serving his sentence to something between and , depending on the interpretation.
If the rules in force today are maintained, the estimate is that the former president will spend 6 years and 10 months to just over 8 years in a closed regime. .
