Overview
- Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies approved a bill that would sharply reduce penalties for a coup attempt and related crimes, and sponsors say Jair Bolsonaro’s term could drop to about two years and four months if the measure becomes law.
- The legislation now heads to the Senate and any new sentence would require judicial recalculation under the revised framework.
- The lower‑house session turned chaotic, with a left‑wing deputy removed by police before debate resumed and the vote proceeded.
- Separately, Bolsonaro’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to grant temporary release for immediate hospitalization and surgery, citing medical records that report a significant deterioration in his condition.
- Doctors previously reported a September biopsy showing squamous cell carcinoma, and the judiciary has flagged flight‑risk concerns after a recent ankle‑monitor incident and his move from house arrest to prison.