Motta confirms PL Antifaction vote this Tuesday: “Toughest response in history”
The president of the Chamber, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), confirmed that the vote on the Anti-Faction bill will take place this Tuesday. In a message posted on social media, Motta said that “public security requires firmness, but also guarantees and institutional efficiency” and that the initiative is “the toughest response in the history of Parliament in confronting organized crime”.
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Hugo Motta announced a new voting attempt for this Tuesday
“Public security requires firmness, but also guarantees and institutional efficiency. Therefore, I included it on tomorrow’s agenda and the Chamber of Deputies will vote on the Legal Framework for Combating Organized Crime. It is the toughest response in the history of Parliament in combating organized crime. The project increases penalties for members of factions and makes it difficult to return to the streets, it also creates and integrates the National and State Data Banks on Criminal Organizations. Let’s move forward with responsibility and the urgency that the issue requires”, declared the president of the Chamber.
The text was authored by the Lula government, but reported by deputy Guilherme Derrite (PP-SP), an opposition member and temporarily on leave from the position of Secretary of Security of São Paulo. The state governor, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), is a possible competitor against the PT member in the 2026 presidential election. The project will be the only item on Tuesday’s voting agenda.
The initial idea was that the text had been voted on last week, but after four reports and two attempts to vote on the project, one last Tuesday and another on Wednesday, the analysis was postponed because the report had not yet reached consensus.
Even after the fourth version was released, there are still points in which the government complains about poor legislative technique and loopholes that could benefit factionalists. On the other side, Bolsonarists still try to classify factions as terrorists, something rejected by the government base and which is not found in the current version of Derrite’s text.
Right-wing governors even asked that the topic be discussed for another 30 days so that, only after that, it could be voted on. The PL bench is also trying to gain more time to leave the issue up for discussion, try to wear down the government and gain prominence in the debate in the area.
The main problems highlighted by the government in relation to the fourth and so far most recent version of the report are regarding the financing of the Federal Police (PF) and the characterization of the crime as a “criminal faction”.
Driven by government supporters, posts on social media also targeted Derrite and Motta because of their versions of the report. One of the main criticisms concerns the excerpts in the versions of the report that affect the PF.
