Overview

• Tens of thousands marched in about 30 cities, with a Copacabana concert drawing roughly 40,000 and São Paulo’s Avenida Paulista estimated at 42,000 by a University of São Paulo group.
• The proposal before the Chamber of Deputies would require a secret vote by lawmakers to authorize any prosecution of their peers, tightening parliamentary protections.
• Lawmakers approved urgent consideration of a separate text to amnesty hundreds convicted over the January 8, 2023 riots in Brasília.
• Allies of Jair Bolsonaro are seeking to broaden any amnesty to include the former president, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for an attempted coup.
• Chamber president Hugo Motta defends the initiative as a safeguard against judicial abuse, while Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski warns it risks facilitating organized-crime infiltration of Parliament.