The right is organizing a new campaign to tighten the text, following the withdrawal of Federal Deputy Guillerme Delight (PL-SP) in connection with the changes proposed in the report on PL opposition. On the one hand, the PL suggests that it is necessary to advocate for proposals that equate criminal factions with terrorist organizations. On the one hand, members of the agribusiness bench are working to include loopholes so that social movements like MST can be classified as dangerous.
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After coming under criticism from the government and base officials, Delight announced last night, along with Chamber of Commerce President Hugo Motta (R-PB), that he had retracted aspects of his initial report. Among the main changes announced, he decided to describe the crime categories created in the new law called the “Legal Framework for Combating Organized Crime” rather than the Anti-Terrorism Act.
However, after the announcement, Chamber PL leader Sostenes Cavalcante (RJ) said in the publication “According to the National Assembly” that there would be proposals to equate criminal organizations with terrorist groups and abolish detention hearings for repeat offenders.
At the same time, Pedro Lupion (PP-PR), vice president of the Parliamentary Agricultural Front (FPA), proposed amendments to the articles that would prevent the government from protecting, providing assistance, recognizing, or benefiting “individuals or organizations involved in crimes against private or public property.”
In addition to him, Federal Deputy Lucio Moschini (MDB-RO), also a member of the Court, also submitted a second amendment on this subject. He proposed that the Criminal Organizations Act include groups whose purpose is to “trespass on rural properties, devastate environmentally protected areas, destroy native vegetation, extort rural property owners, or commit related crimes.”
As GLOBO has shown, classifying social movements as terrorists was also proposed by the right during the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL). In 2021, a debate was brought to the House of Commons based on a PL proposal submitted by then Lieutenant Colonel Victor (PL-GO), but its urgency was denied during a vote in the plenary session. The same idea was revived during the 2022 pre-campaign, when Bolsonaro sent a package of security measures to Congress, which also failed to progress in subsequent months.
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