Overview

• Coordinated demonstrations on Sept. 21 filled streets in all 26 state capitals and the Federal District against the PEC that raises hurdles to prosecuting lawmakers and against an amnesty push tied to Jan. 8 convictions.
• Independent crowd analysis estimated roughly 42.3 thousand people on São Paulo’s Avenida Paulista and about 41.8 thousand in Rio’s Copacabana at peak time.
• Senator Alessandro Vieira, the CCJ relator, and committee chair Otto Alencar said they will oppose the measure and expect it to be defeated when the report is read on Wednesday.
• The Chamber’s fast-tracked amnesty proposal remains under negotiation, with relator Paulinho da Força signaling a ‘dosimetry’ approach that would reduce sentences rather than grant a blanket pardon.
• Artists helped anchor large turnouts at shows in Rio and other cities, and Brazilian communities abroad rallied in Lisbon, London, Paris and Berlin, amplifying pressure on Congress.