The presidential candidate also stated that ‘stimulating an endless debate about the 8th of January is condemning Brazil to have no future’
The former governor of Goiás, Ronaldo Caiado (PSD)said in a note this Saturday (9) that the suspension of the Dosimetry Law, made by the minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), is an attack on democracy and a “deplorable” decision.
The presidential pre-candidate also said that the minister crosses the limits of the institutional relationshipclassifying the movement as judicial activism. He further analyzed that the act favors polarization.
Caiado says that the serves as a way to divert attention from important debates for the electoral process “from the real problems of the population, such as public security, education, health and quality public transport.”
“Stimulating an endless debate about the 8th of January, bypassing the representatives elected by the people to Congress, is condemn Brazil to have no future“, these.
“This game of cat and mouse, this doing and undoing, is unacceptable in a democracy that we want to be mature”, he concluded.
Moraes’ decision
Alexandre de Moraes suspended the application of Dosimetry Law until the Court judges actions that question the constitutionality of the rule.
In the decision, the minister stated that the existence of direct actions of unconstitutionality against the Dosimetry Law represents a “new and relevant procedural fact”, which justifies the suspension of the application of the standard until the Supreme Court concludes its judgment on the constitutionality of the text.
The decision was published this Saturday in response to ten requests for a sentence reduction. condemned on January 8th.
In this way, those convicted They will have to wait for the Court’s final decision to access the benefits provided by law, such as reduced sentences.
When analyzing the requests, Moraes mentioned that the Brazilian Press Association (ABI) and the PSOL-Rede federation sued the Supreme Court to question the constitutionality of the Dosimetry Law.
The actions challenge the section of the new legislation that provides that, in cases of crimes against the Democratic Rule of Law and coup d’état carried out in the same context, only the most serious penalty will be applied, without the sum of the punishments, as was the case previously.
According to the authors of the actions, the change could create more favorable treatment for crimes related to institutional breakdown, allowing those convicted of attacks on democracy to receive milder sentences than perpetrators of common violent crimes.
Promulgation
A had been announced on Friday (8), after the National Congress overturns the full veto of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT). The government argued that the text went against the public interest by reducing penalties for crimes against democracy.
A Dosimetry Law reduces the penalties applied to those convicted of attempted coup d’état in the context of the acts of January 8, 2023when supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro invaded and vandalized the headquarters of the Three Powers, in Brasília, after his defeat in the 2022 elections.
Moraes was the rapporteur of the criminal actions related to the coup acts and responsible for the convictions of those involved.
Also on Friday, the informed that they would sue the STF to challenge the constitutionality of the new law.
