Overview

• Relator Paulo Pereira da Silva says he opposes a blanket amnesty and is drafting a substitute to reduce sentencing ranges, beginning consultations with party leaders and the Chamber president.
• He signaled that a vote is unlikely this week, while allies of President of the Chamber Hugo Motta say the proposal could be held for at least two weeks pending a leaders’ meeting.
• New U.S. Magnitsky sanctions and visa cancellations targeting Brazilian figures, including the wife of Justice Alexandre de Moraes and officials such as Attorney General Jorge Messias, shifted the political calculus.
• Supreme Court justices conveyed concern to Hugo Motta about advancing the text after the sanctions, and the relator is expected to seek direct conversations with members of the Court.
• PL leader Sóstenes Cavalcante, after meeting Jair Bolsonaro, acknowledged the changed scenario as the opposition presses for broad amnesty and Lula stated at the U.N. that there is no pacification with impunity.