The president of , (-PB), stated this Friday (17) that he hopes that President Lula (PT) will veto the bill that . This could lead to a reduction in the sentences of the former president (PL), currently under house arrest.
The statement was made in an interview with GloboNews this morning. For Motta, overturning the veto is necessary “so that we can turn this page, this sad chapter in the history of our country.”
A by the president of , Davi Alcolumbre (União-AP), for Thursday (30), after pressure from Bolsonarists.
The dosimetry project was The proposal states that the penalties for the crimes of coup d’état and violent abolition of the democratic rule of law should not be applied cumulatively when inserted in the same context. The text says that the more serious penalty between the two should be applied, increasing the punishment from one-sixth to half.
The text also provides for a penalty reduction of one to two thirds for crimes of attempted coup or abolition when they have been committed in a crowd. Furthermore, it sets the shortest possible time to serve the sentence for regime progression for these crimes, one-sixth, regardless of recidivism or the use of violence or serious threat.
The project reduces both the total sentences and the minimum time in a closed regime for those convicted of the coup plot and the 8th of January. The proposal could reduce Jair Bolsonaro’s time in a closed regime from the current range of 6 to 8 years to between 2 years and 4 months and 4 years and 2 months, depending on the interpretation.
At the beginning of this year, however, it was up to Congress to evaluate the vetoes.
The analysis took a long time to be scheduled by the president of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre (União-AP), as the opening of the session will also lead, according to the internal regulations, to the reading of the request that installs the joint CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) of Banco Master. Alcolumbre told allies that he was against the establishment.
For Motta, the dosimetry project strains relations between Congress and the STF (Supreme Federal Court), as there would be a “consensus in society” that some sentences were given “in an exaggerated manner”.
“This condition constructed by us in the Chamber of Deputies and widely approved and agreed by the Federal Senate, which was vetoed by the President of the Republic, gives the Judiciary itself the condition, obeying the requests of these people who are being tried, others who have already been convicted, to be able to review these sentences and grant a possible reduction of these sentences, which in my assessment would culminate in the release of practically all the people who are still imprisoned due to January 8th”, he explained to GloboNews.
He assesses that the issue generated an “institutional crisis”, which “went on for too long”.
“Throughout the year 2025, the main issue that guided the discussions, the moments of tension within Congress, was around this amnesty, which the Chamber and the Senate did not agree with the broad, general and unrestricted amnesty. (…) In my opinion, we could have already resolved this problem if it were not for the veto of the President of the Republic, which will now be analyzed by Congress”.
