Overview

• Relator Paulinho da Força says the new text will reduce penalties for organization crime, qualified damage and deterioration of protected property, while keeping full punishments for crimes against the democratic order.
• Contacts were made with STF ministers by Temer during a meeting with Paulinho and Aécio Neves, but interlocutors say no agreement or commitment from the Court was offered.
• In the Senate, CCJ chair Otto Alencar named Alessandro Vieira as rapporteur for the PEC da Blindagem, and Vieira pledged a technical report recommending rejection, with the MDB closing ranks against the measure.
• The National Association of Federal Police Delegates warned the PEC would weaken investigations, reintroduce impunity and subject prosecutions to secret votes and prior authorization from Congress.
• Political pressures are split as Ciro Nogueira signals support for sentence reductions, PL figures like Eduardo and Flávio Bolsonaro push for broad amnesty, and online backlash has driven some deputies to recant votes on the shielding proposal.