Alcolumbre says that alternative text on amnesty is “ready”

Senate President David Alcolumbre (Union-AP) said he already has a text ready as an alternative to the proposal defended by the opposition of the House by an amnesty project that includes involved in coup acts and may benefit former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL). He should introduce him next week. This Wednesday, the House approved the urgency of the project, but without voting the merits of the text, which should be aligned in the coming days and will be rapporteur the deputy Paulinho da Força (Solidarity-SP). Alcolumbre said he still awaits the movements.

“I will wait first what the House will decide. My (project) is ready, but I will wait for it. If they do not resolve, next week I will make a decision,” said the Senate President,

Asked last week, Alcolumbre said the growing pressures for the conviction of Bolsonaro and seven other allies in the Supreme Court (STF) for participation in the coup plot did not change their rejection to a project that guarantees the “broad and unrestricted amnesty”.

As the globe showed, ministers of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) have said that a possible broad amnesty should be barred by the court because it is unconstitutional. The proposal gained traction last week from conversations involving important Centrão figures, who see Bolsonaro’s chance to support a candidacy for the presidential president of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas, if there is a national concertation in favor of the accused of paying attention against democratic institutions.

A possibility debated in the Senate has a change in the crime of abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, which would be unified with the typification of a coup attempt. The change, if approved, could benefit those involved in the attacks with the reduction of penalties, which, consequently, may represent compliance with the punishment in a less rigid regime than the closed.

Earlier, at the exit of the meeting with Motta who sealed the choice, Paulinho stated that the most likely way to the text that will be built is the reduction of penalties.

“Idea is pacification. Building a project that is neither right nor so much to the left. Talking to the center especially, and trying to vote as quickly as possible. Idea that is emerging in almost all parties (reduce feathers). I will talk to all the benches so that we have a master line. Bolsonaro, let’s say. We will try to build the majority.