After the retreat of federal MP Guilherme Dirret (PL-SP) regarding the changes proposed in his report on PL Antifaction, the right is organizing a new movement to tighten the text. On the one hand, the People’s Party indicates that it must insist on the proposal to equate criminal factions with terrorist organizations. On the other hand, members of the Agricultural Business Council work to fill the loopholes so that social movements such as the agricultural labor movement are labeled as dangerous.
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After being criticized by the government and members of the base, Dirit announced last night, along with the president of the chamber, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), that he had retracted the sections he had predicted in his initial report. Among the main changes announced, he decided to describe the criminal types created in a new law called the “Legal Framework to Combat Organized Crime” and no longer in the Anti-Terrorism Law.
However, after the announcement, the chamber’s parliamentary leader, Sosthenis Kavalkanti (RJ), said in a post on the parliamentarian’s website that proposals would be made to equate criminal organizations with terrorist groups and end detention sessions for repeat offenders.
In parallel, the head of the Parliamentary Agrarian Front (FPA), Rep. Pedro Lupion (PP-PR), presented an amendment to the text prohibiting the government from protecting, providing assistance, recognizing and benefiting from “individuals or organizations involved in the commission of crimes against private or public property.”
In addition, federal MP Lucio Moschini (MDB-RO), also part of the court’s bench, introduced a second amendment on the subject. The parliamentarian proposed including in the Criminal Organizations Law entities “whose goal is to invade rural property, degrade environmental conservation areas, destroy local plants, and practice extortion against rural owners or any related crimes.”
As GLOBO has shown, the classification of social movements as terrorists was also proposed by the right during the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL). In 2021, discussion reached the chamber based on a bill introduced by Deputy Major Victor (PL-GO), but his urgency ended up being rejected when it was voted on in the plenary session. The same idea was revived during the pre-2022 campaign, when Bolsonaro sent a package of public security measures to Congress, which also failed to move forward in the following months.
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