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Senate Relator Removes Age‑Reduction Amendments From Public Security PEC

The move shifts the juvenile‑responsibility fight out of the constitutional vote and could clear the way for the government to approve the security reform unchanged.

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Overview

  • Relator Sen. Rogério Carvalho presented a formal report on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, that rejects plenary amendments to lower the age of criminal responsibility and proposes those proposals be processed as separate, autonomous measures.
  • Carvalho argued the PEC is not the right forum for changing criminal majority and said the most extreme proposal to set responsibility at 14 lacks legal and political convergence, noting the Chamber already has a special commission studying reduction to 16.
  • The Lula government and allied leaders have pushed to approve the PEC as sent by the Chamber to avoid sending the text back to deputies and to speed the package tied to plans for a Ministry of Security.
  • The opposition, led by Sen. Rogério Marinho, filed a destaque to force a vote on reducing the age but the Senate Secretariat said approving separate tramitation would render that destaque prejudiced and block a merit vote on Marinho’s amendment.
  • The PEC itself would constitutionalize the SUSP, strengthen federal action against organized crime, extend PRF duties to railways and waterways, allow municipal police under conditions, and still requires 49 votes in two rounds for approval which would send any altered text back to the Chamber.