Overview

• Brazil’s Chamber CCJ approved a bill to restrict monocratic injunctions by STF ministers to exceptional cases or congressional recess, with written justification and automatic submission to the next plenary session.
• The proposal raises quorum and majority thresholds for ADI/ADO/ADC/ADPF rulings to at least eight justices present and six convergent votes, narrows standing to parties that meet the performance clause, requires federations to file jointly, and tightens criteria for unions and class entities.
• The text was approved in a terminative vote and will go to the Senate unless a plenary appeal is filed, and its architecture draws on a 2020 jurists’ commission chaired by Justice Gilmar Mendes.
• Separately, President Lula sanctioned Complementary Law 219/2025 revising the Ficha Limpa law by unifying an eight‑year ineligibility ceiling, capping connected convictions at 12 years, creating the RDE, and vetoing retroactive benefits to already‑convicted politicians.
• Rede Sustentabilidade and the MCCE filed an ADI to suspend the new rules on procedural and constitutional grounds, and deputy Célio Studart sought an injunction via mandado de segurança, leaving the STF to decide on urgent relief as Congress prepares to review Lula’s vetoes.