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Brazil’s Lower House Approves Bill to Sharply Cut Bolsonaro’s Sentence

The measure still requires Senate approval followed by possible Supreme Court review of sentencing.

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.