The Chamber’s Workers’ Party leader, Lindbergh Farias (RJ), stated that the government was the victim of “theft with abuse of trust”, following changes to the anti-cult law anticipated by the text’s rapporteur, Guilherme Dayret (PP), federal MP and licensed Secretary of Public Security in São Paulo. The Workers’ Party MP made the comment in an interview with newspaper Folha de São Paulo and repeated it in a post on X on Sunday afternoon.
In the post, Lindbergh mentions the crime in the Penal Code. In the document, the crime is described as a situation in which someone takes advantage of the relationship of trust built with the victim to steal a piece of money. Very material. “This is exactly what they did with President Lula: they took away the authorship and spirit of PL Antifaction, a project prepared by the Ministry of Justice to strengthen the fight against factions, tighten sanctions, freeze assets, and create the National Bank of criminal factions,” he wrote in the post.
In the post, the parliamentarian also highlighted that Dirit is part of the secretariat of the governor of São Paulo, Tarcisio de Freitas (Republicans), whom the Workers’ Party member described as a “pre-candidate for the presidency.” He added, “He stole the government’s text and politically polluted it, turning it into an anti-terrorism law and creating functional parity between factions and terrorism, something that the original draft itself explicitly avoided.”
As Globo showed last week, the rapporteur said that criminal factions should not be conceptually classified as terrorist organizations, but that their armed practices and territorial dominance should receive criminal treatment equivalent to terrorism, with prison sentences ranging from 20 to 40 years. The Labor MP added: “This change distorts the technical content and turns national public policy into an instrument of electoral conflict, transforming the original purpose of Hizb ut-Tahrir.”
In the post, Lindbergh also said the change in text also threatens national sovereignty by “opening a loophole for the automatic application of international anti-terrorism treaties, which could lead to financial sanctions, asset freezes, and foreign police cooperation.” The appointment of Secretary Tarcisio to take on the role of text rapporteur was also the subject of a complaint submitted by President Lula (PT) to the President of the Chamber, Hugo Motta (Republic), last week.
In response, Motta, in a post on X, said that the report presented by Derrett maintains the points made by the federal government and toughens penalties against criminal factions. He also stressed in the post that public safety is a “nonpartisan issue and a national imperative,” and said he would work toward the chamber’s approval of the project this year. He added, “The plenary session is sovereign and the discussion will be broad, transparent and democratic.”
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