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Senate Relator Removes Age‑Reduction Amendments From Brazil Security PEC

The decision clears a route to vote the constitutional security overhaul in the Senate without altering its text and preserves the plan to treat criminal‑responsibility changes as separate bills.

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Plenário do Senado Federal durante sessão
Congressistas estão buscando um consenso para avançar com a PEC
AO VIVO: Plenário do Senado vota PEC da Segurança Pública

Overview

  • Senator Rogério Carvalho presented a new report on Tuesday that leaves out two proposed amendments to lower the age of criminal responsibility and asks that both measures be processed as independent propositions.
  • One amendment from Rogério Marinho would cut the age to 16 generally and to 14 for specified violent crimes, while Camilo Santana’s proposal would allow criminal responsibility at 16 only for heinous offenses.
  • The Lula government, led in the session by Minister José Guimarães and Senate leaders, pushed for a straight vote on the PEC to avoid sending the revised text back to the Chamber of Deputies and delay the measure.
  • Opposition senators say they will press a procedural destaque to force a vote on the age‑reduction changes, a move that would require at least 49 affirmative votes in each of two Senate rounds to pass and could reshape the bill’s timetable.
  • The semipresential session, with remote presence and voting available to senators such as Flávio Bolsonaro, makes attendance and vote coordination decisive and will determine whether the PEC proceeds as the government wants or returns to the Chamber for further debate.