Overview
- Deputies passed the proposal 291–148 after an unruly overnight session in Brasília.
- Rapporteur Paulinho da Força says the change could reduce Bolsonaro’s 27-year, three-month term to about two years and four months.
- The bill extends conditional release to 141 people convicted for the January 8, 2023 attacks on federal buildings.
- Proceedings were disrupted as a pro-government lawmaker was expelled, the TV feed was cut, and journalists were removed from the chamber, drawing a rebuke from the national journalists’ federation.
- Bolsonaro remains in federal police custody in Brasília, and his lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to authorize immediate hospitalization for two procedures linked to complications from a 2018 stabbing.