Overview
- The Chamber of Deputies approved a measure that folds the Procuradoria-Geral Federal and the Central Bank’s procuradoria into the Advocacia-Geral da União, placing those offices under the AGU’s institutional structure.
- The integration keeps technical subordination to the attorney-general but requires that the PGF and Central Bank procurators-general be jointly indicated by the AGU attorney-general and, respectively, the finance minister or the Central Bank president with preference for career appointees.
- Lawmakers changed rules for the AGU’s Conselho Superior to require elected representatives and their alternates to be tenured civil servants and directed the attorney-general to adopt voting rules that preserve representational balance among legal careers.
- Separately, the Chamber’s CCJ cleared a law allowing AGU attorneys and federal prosecutors to do private legal work outside their public duties subject to limits: no representation against the Union or its autarchies and a ban on private practice for holders of commissioned or trust positions.
- Both measures now go to the Senate for review, where senators can amend or reject them, and critics warn the changes could concentrate influence in the AGU and reduce the autonomy of federal agencies while supporters say the bills rationalize and standardize federal legal representation.