Overview

• Demonstrations spanned roughly 30 cities, with about 40,000 people at Rio’s Copacabana and 42,000 in São Paulo according to a University of São Paulo research group.
• Hugo Motta framed the measure as protection from judicial abuse, while Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski warned it could enable infiltration of organized crime into Parliament.
• The Chamber of Deputies advanced the immunity initiative, and lawmakers separately approved urgent consideration of an amnesty for those convicted over the January 8, 2023 riots.
• President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva endorsed the protests and pledged to veto any amnesty legislation.
• Allies of Jair Bolsonaro are seeking to extend any amnesty to the former president, who has been sentenced to 27 years for an attempted coup.