Brazil Government Fights Changes to Antifaction Bill as Right Prepares Tougher Additions

Overview

• Minister Gleisi Hoffmann said the rapporteur’s draft alters four structuring points, including replacing the distinct crime of “facção criminosa” with “domínio social estruturante,” removing extraordinary forfeiture, risking overlapping laws, and reallocating funds in ways she says decapitalize the Federal Police.
• She asked to postpone a vote expected in the Chamber and said government leaders will take the request to Speaker Hugo Motta.
• After criticism, Guilherme Derrite announced a partial retreat by moving new offenses to a separate framework instead of the antiterror law, though his report still changes definitions and delays asset seizures until final conviction.
• PL leader Sóstenes Cavalcante said the party will push highlights to equate criminal organizations with terrorist groups and to end custody hearings for repeat offenders.
• Agribusiness lawmakers Pedro Lupion and Lúcio Mosquini filed amendments to bar government support for those tied to property crimes and to classify entities that invade rural land or commit environmental offenses under the organized crime law.