The president of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre (União-AP), stated this Wednesday, 8th, that he is in dialogue with the president of the Chamber, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), to define the date of the next session of the National Congress that will analyze vetoes by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), including the so-called Dosimetry PL. The project could reduce the sentences imposed on former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and other defendants convicted of attempted coup after the 2022 elections.
“This agenda and this agenda falls solely and exclusively to the president of the Senate and I will exercise this prerogative conferred by the Constitution. My desire is, as quickly as possible, for us to hold a session of the National Congress to deliberate on a very relevant issue that requires deliberation by Congress, which is the veto of the dosimetry bill”, said Alcolumbre.
The demonstration occurred after requests from opposition senators for President Lula’s full veto of the dosimetry project to be considered. Alcolumbre clarified that the agenda must still be defined and that it will not necessarily encompass all items pending voting.
Parliamentarians approved the Dosimetry PL on December 18 last year, to reduce the penalties applied by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to Bolsonaro and others convicted of the attempted coup d’état and the anti-democratic acts of January 8, 2023. The former president was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison.
With the project, Bolsonaro would have his sentence reduced to 20 years, with the time spent under a closed regime reduced to two years and four months. According to the legislative rite, the text needed to be submitted for presidential sanction.
On January 8 of this year, three years after the acts of vandalism in Brasília, Lula signed a full veto of the project approved by Congress.
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“January 8th is marked by history as the day of victory for our democracy. Victory over those who tried to take power by force, disregarding the popular will expressed at the polls. Those who always defended dictatorship, torture and the extermination of opponents, and intended to subject Brazil to an exceptional regime”, said Lula.
Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), son of the former president and pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, reacted at the time by stating that Lula is “driven by hatred and ideology” and that the veto is an “open, selective and unfair political persecution”.
Understand the PL of Dosimetry
The Dosimetry bill changes the way in which penalties for crimes against the Democratic Rule of Law will be calculated. According to the text, when the attempt to abolish the Democratic State and the crime of a coup d’état are committed within the same context, there is no longer a combination of penalties. In this situation, only the most severe punishment will prevail.
The proposal’s central axis is the review of criminal dosimetry, with changes in the minimum and maximum levels foreseen for each criminal type and in the general methodology for calculating sentences. The text also shortens the deadlines for the progression of the sentence, facilitating the transition from the closed regime to the semi-open or open regime.
