The process accelerated the processing of a bill that allows the veto of the president (PT) to be overturned on the dosimetry project, which reduces the sentences of the former president (PL) and the others arrested on January 8, without impact on the Anti-Faction Law, which increased the sentence for crimes such as feminicide or criminal organization.
The urgency request was approved with 330 votes in favor and 104 against. Urgency allows a measure to be evaluated directly in the plenary, without going through committees.
The proposal, authored by deputy Paulo Abi-Ackel (PSDB-MG), arises from what the author says is a “technical distortion” between the Dosimetry PL (bill) and the Anti-Faction Law.
This happens because the dosimetry, approved in December 2025, used as a basis a version of the Criminal Execution Law prior to the changes made by the Anti-Faction Law, which tightened the rules for regime progression. The law was, after being
Thus, if the presidential veto were overturned in full and the dosimetry came into force, part of the new rules of the Anti-Faction Law would be invalidated.
on January 8 this year. The vetoes will be analyzed this Thursday (30), in a session of the , and must be overturned by parliamentarians.
This side effect, that the benefits would extend to those convicted of other serious crimes, is one of the arguments used by Lula’s base to defend the maintenance of the veto.
According to the author, the proposal aims to free the evaluation of vetoes on dosimetry “from arguments that do not concern it”. “It’s one thing to debate the sentencing of the January 8 protesters. It’s another, completely different thing, to relax rules for so-called serious crimes”, says Abi-Ackel.
The approval of the project’s accelerated process strengthens a solution to the distortion without the need for legislative innovations.
The other possibility pointed out by right-wing senators Sheet It would be for the president of the , Davi Alcolumbre (União Brasil-AP), to consider the sections of the veto subsequently modified by the Anti-Faction Law to be impaired (i.e., ineffective).
According to parliamentarians, this procedure would have already been used in state legislative houses, but there is no precedent in Congress. Given this, PT and opposition senators raised the possibility that a partial vote on the veto would end up being challenged in court.
During the vote on the request, PT leader Pedro Uczai (RS) argued that “the urgency regime cannot be used to accelerate a project conditioned on a future and uncertain event”. “Why are we voting on this project that already has a law equal to the content being voted on today?”, he asked.
A to overturn the veto and impose a defeat on Lula, benefiting Bolsonaro and other prisoners convicted of coup plotting with
For Lula’s veto to be overturned, the vote of 257 of the 513 deputies and also of 41 of the 81 senators is necessary — if this majority is not reached in any of the Houses, the veto is maintained.
In the Chamber, there were 148 opponents. Already in , of the project and 25 opposites. Therefore, the lifting of the veto is the most expected result, unless the government manages to turn votes in its favor.
The text of the Dosimetry Bill softens the rules for crimes against the democratic rule of law and, in relation to other crimes, maintains the minimum prison time necessary to obtain the progression of the regime that was already established in the Criminal Execution Law at the time.
In relation to crimes against the democratic rule of law, the Dosimetry PL states that the minimum time for regime progression is 16.66% (one sixth), reduces the penalty if crimes against democratic institutions are committed in crowds and determines that penalties relating to the same context are not added together, but that the highest prevails.
In the case of Bolsonaro, for participating in the coup plot, the Dosimetria PL may reduce his period under a closed regime from the current 6 to 8 years to something between and , depending on the interpretation.
The time Bolsonaro dedicates to work or study, activities that can be used to reduce the period in prison, will also influence the reduction of sentences. The former president on Monday (27).
