Senate Moves to Review Bill Cutting Jan. 8 Sentences After Turbulent Chamber Passage

Overview

• The Chamber approved the PL da Dosimetria by 291–148–1, ending the summing of overlapping coup-related crimes and accelerating prison-regime progression.
• Senator Esperidião Amin was named rapporteur and the CCJ is slated to take up the bill next week; he raised the possibility of adding amnesty, which CCJ chair Otto Alencar said would be unconstitutional.
• After the vote, Lula met Senate leaders Renan Calheiros, Jaques Wagner and Eduardo Braga as allies moved to seek delays in the CCJ and readied partial or total vetoes if the text reaches the presidency.
• Supporters estimate Jair Bolsonaro’s closed-regime time could fall to roughly 2 years and 4 months, but any benefit would require case-by-case recalculation by the Supreme Court rather than automatic application.
• The overnight session saw protests, the forcible removal of Deputy Glauber Braga, a TV Câmara blackout and reporters expelled, as broader tensions rose with the Senate’s approval of a ‘marco temporal’ PEC challenging the STF.