Overview
- Deputies passed the measure 291–148 in an overnight vote that inserted the text onto the agenda with little warning.
- Bill author Paulinho da Força says the changes could lower Jair Bolsonaro’s term to about two years and four months, subject to judicial calculation.
- The proposal also opens the door to conditional release for more than a hundred supporters jailed over the January 8, 2023 Brasília attacks.
- The session turned chaotic as a leftist lawmaker was removed by legislative police, the official broadcast was cut, and journalists were expelled, drawing condemnation from the national press federation.
- Bolsonaro’s lawyers requested temporary release for two urgent surgeries and renewed a bid for house arrest on humanitarian grounds.