Overview

• The sanction with vetoes was published Tuesday in the Diário Oficial, preserving current eight-year inelegibility rules tied to the end of the mandate and completion of penalties.
• Lula struck clauses to start the clock at conviction, loss of mandate, the implicated election, or resignation, and to apply the new counting retroactively with a 12-year cap.
• The government said the decision upholds isonomy, legal certainty and res judicata in line with STF jurisprudence, following technical opinions from AGU and the Ministry of Justice.
• Any override now requires 257 deputies and 41 senators in separate votes, and early signals from congressional figures — including the bill’s House rapporteur — point to low support for overturning.
• Reporting identified likely beneficiaries of the rejected changes, including Eduardo Cunha, Anthony Garotinho and José Roberto Arruda.