Overview

• The Chamber of Deputies approved the security decree on May 29 with 163 votes in favor, 91 against and one abstention.
• The law creates 14 new offenses and nine aggravating circumstances covering acts such as road blockades, building occupations and protest violence.
• Provisions expand police powers with wearable cameras, streamline evictions of occupied properties and grant broader legal immunity to intelligence services.
• Opposition parties staged street protests on May 31, branded the measures 'repressive' and accused the government of discouraging turnout in the June 8–9 referendums.
• The decree now advances to the Senate for final approval by June 10 as the government readies constitutional reforms in July on judicial career separation and a directly elected prime minister.