Overview

• Relator Paulinho da Força says the draft abandons a blanket pardon and focuses on reducing penalties for offenses not classified as crimes against democracy.
• The proposal would trim sentences for criminal organization, qualified damage, and deterioration of protected heritage while keeping current punishments for attempted coup and abolition of the democratic order.
• After a meeting at Michel Temer’s residence with Aécio Neves and Hugo Motta by video, Temer called STF ministers Gilmar Mendes and Alexandre de Moraes as the group emphasized excluding anti‑democracy crimes.
• Senator Ciro Nogueira signaled support for sentence reductions rather than full amnesty, even as PL leader Sóstenes Cavalcante continues to press for an unrestricted pardon and questions Congress’s authority to apply dosimetry.
• STF jurisprudence holds that crimes against democracy cannot be amnestied, and a constitutional scholar warns Congress cannot retroactively alter individual sentences set by the Court, underscoring legal risks to the plan.