The Senate approves a bill that reduces the period of inadmissibility and weakens the clean record law

The Senate approves a bill that reduces the period of inadmissibility and weakens the clean record law


The proposal now goes to the sanction of President Lula




Brasilia – The plenary of Senate Approved, with 50 votes at 24, the complementary bill (PLP) 192/2023, which advances the count of the deadlines of ineligibility, weakens the law of the clean record and favors already convicted of the politicians. The proposal now goes to the sanction of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The bill was approved by the Chamber in 2023 and since then his defenders have tried to guide him to the Senate.

The project is criticized by pro-transparency and anti-corruption organizations, which affirm that the content attacks the clean record law and has been approved without public debate.

Currently, the law establishes that the non -admissible politician declared cannot compete in the elections held during the ongoing mandate or eight years following the end of his legislature (up to four or eight years). Nor can they apply until the final judgment of the sentence. Parliamentarians argue that this makes departures last in practice.

The proposal approved by the Senate modifies this format: the period of inadmissibility would be unique, eight years, counted by four milestones, which will depend on each case:

-Decision to decree the loss of the mandate;

-election in which a violent practice occurred;

-Conductor by the collegiate body; OR

-Inunciation in the elective position.

With this, the beginning of the deadline would be expected. The text also determines that, in situations of subsequent convictions, even for different facts, the sum of the inamicances will be a maximum of 12 years.

The president of the Senate David Alcolumbre (Union-AP) defended the proposal during the session: “I make a point of modernization, the updating of the clean record law, to give the spirit of the legislator. The inelegility cannot be eternal. It is in the text of the eight-year law, it cannot be nine or twenty. (Pl-to).

PL and PDT recommended the favorable vote. MDB and new guided refusal. PSD, PP, UNIão Brasil, Republicans and PSDB published their benches to vote as they wanted.

Changes to the text

The representative of the project, Senator Weverton (PD-MA), accepted the amendments to the text, which prevent the use of the advance by the former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL).

One of them determines that any candidate who commits the abuse of power, even if not elected, must be not admissible. Bolsonaro is not admissible in 2030 for abuse of political power during a meeting held at the Alvorada Palace with the ambassadors in 2022

The anticipation, however, could benefit from politicians such as the former deputy Eduardo Cunha, father of the author of the project, Dani Cunha (União-Rj).

Weverton has also accepted an amendment that determines that the new deadlines would not be valid for crimes considered serious, such as against the public administration, the criminal organization, the recycling of money, the atrocious crimes, racism and drug trafficking. In such cases, the counting of admissibility would only continue after the sentence. “I am convinced that the adjustments we have made have improved the project,” said Alcoholumbe.

Source: Terra

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