Overview
- Chamber President Hugo Motta placed the PL Antifacção on the Nov. 11 agenda, with virtual sessions planned due to COP30 that could delay a vote.
- Relator Guilherme Derrite’s substitute treats specific faction acts as having effects equivalent to terrorism, setting 20–40 year sentences without classifying groups as terrorist organizations.
- The report removes benefits such as grace, amnesty, pardon and parole, raises time served thresholds, mandates faction leaders in federal maximum‑security prisons, and creates a nationwide integrated system and permanent task force under the Justice Ministry.
- Government allies criticize the changes as political appropriation, with PT leader Lindbergh Farias calling it a “furto político” and warning of sovereignty and international‑law risks.
- The government’s original draft, signed by Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski and AGU Jorge Messias, created a qualified organized‑crime category with judicial intervention in companies and immediate financial blocking, while Derrite says the Federal Police keep terrorism cases and state bodies handle organized‑crime conduct.