Overview
- The Chamber approved a sentence-reduction bill for specific offenses, presented as a bid for “pacification,” which still requires Senate passage.
- If enacted, judges would recalculate penalties, with negotiator Paulinho da Força estimating Bolsonaro’s term could drop to about two years and four months.
- The measure would, in practice, grant parole to roughly 100 people jailed over the January 8, 2023 attacks in Brasília.
- Debate turned chaotic as Deputy Glauber Braga was removed after occupying the speaker’s chair, the broadcast was interrupted, and journalists were expelled from the floor.
- Separately, Bolsonaro’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to authorize release for surgical procedures and to allow home confinement on humanitarian grounds.