Brazil’s Lower House Sets Antifacção Vote as Derrite’s Harsher Substitute Faces Pushback

Overview

• Chamber President Hugo Motta placed the government’s PL Antifacção on Tuesday’s agenda, with COP30 and virtual sessions potentially affecting the voting window.
• Relator Guilherme Derrite’s version treats armed territorial control, attacks on security forces and sabotage of public services as producing effects equivalent to terrorism, carrying 20–40 year sentences, removal of benefits and mandatory federal maximum‑security time for leaders.
• The original Justice Ministry draft created a qualified organized‑crime offense with 8–15 year penalties and tools such as corporate intervention, asset blocking and enhanced investigative powers developed over more than a year.
• National Security Secretary Mário Sarrubbo urged more negotiation, calling the substitute rushed and legally disruptive and warning it could exclude cyber and financial schemes targeted in the government proposal.
• PT leader Lindbergh Farias accused Derrite of politicizing the bill, while prosecutors and scholars flagged federal–state jurisdiction conflicts, weaker forfeiture architecture and risks to legitimate protests; Derrite says he is incorporating suggestions ahead of the vote.