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Senate Advances Security PEC for Two-Round Vote

Approval of a special calendar removes the waiting period, putting broad changes to policing, funding and prison rules on track for promulgation if passed unchanged.

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A aprovação do calendário especial dispensa o intervalo entre os dois turnos da votação da PEC

Overview

  • The Senate's CCJ approved the executive text without changes and the plenary on Wednesday night backed a special calendar that waives the usual waiting period, clearing the way for two consecutive floor votes scheduled for Thursday.
  • A constitutional amendment needs three-fifths support in each round, meaning at least 49 of 81 senators must vote yes for the PEC to pass both times.
  • The PEC would constitutionalize a national System of Public Security (SUSP), allow creation of municipal police for ostensive and community patrols, expand federal police roles such as the PRF, and create harsher prison regimes and asset measures for faction and militia leaders.
  • The proposal locks new funding rules into the Constitution by obliging transfers from the FNSP and Funpen and allocating 10% of the Fundo Social surplus to security funds, which shifts budget power between the Union, states and municipalities.
  • A key legal and political flashpoint is a clause letting Congress suspend CNJ and CNMP acts on security grounds, a move that STF President Edson Fachin warned could increase legislative interference in the judiciary and could shape final Senate support.