STF Publishes Ruling Against Bolsonaro as Chamber Pushes Contentious ‘Antifacção’ Bill

Overview

• The Supreme Court released the full acórdão rejecting Bolsonaro’s clarification appeals, opening a five‑day window for new filings that the rapporteur, Alexandre de Moraes, may dismiss as dilatory before ordering sentence execution.
• The ruling formalizes that an armed criminal organization, led by Bolsonaro since mid‑2021, sought to undermine institutions and that the January 8 attacks were a stage of this plan, with embargos also denied to six other convicted allies.
• House Speaker Hugo Motta scheduled a vote for today on the ‘Antifacção’ bill even without consensus, as ministers Gleisi Hoffmann and Ricardo Lewandowski press relator Guilherme Derrite for a fifth version and the PL party weighs restoring a terrorism equivalence.
• Derrite’s latest draft raises penalties up to 40 years, mandates federal prisons for leaders, creates national data banks, authorizes task forces and prison monitoring, and changes seized‑asset distribution that the Justice Ministry says could strip over R$360 million from federal security funds.
• Rio Governor Cláudio Castro said he delivered all additional materials sought by Moraes on the October 28 operation with 121 deaths, while the Senate’s organized‑crime CPI begins hearings with the Federal Police chief and specialists.