Overview
- Senate President Davi Alcolumbre placed PEC 48/2023 on Tuesday’s agenda with a special calendar that could allow two rounds of voting on the same day.
- The Supreme Federal Court will hold in-person oral arguments on Wednesday on challenges to Law 14.701/2023, with no minister votes expected at this session.
- Law 14.701, approved in 2023 after Congress overturned President Lula’s veto, reinstated the 1988 cutoff for demarcating indigenous territories.
- Indigenous organizations intensified opposition, with APIB asking the Court to suspend the law and COIAB denouncing the Senate proposal as the “PEC da Morte.”
- The federal solicitor’s office submitted a transitional indemnification plan for Court validation, as a ruling on the law could affect more than 80 similar cases and over 300 demarcation processes.