Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies approved at the dawn of the last century, by 291 votes to 148, a bill that opens the door to a considerable reduction in the prison sentence of former ultra-democratic President Jair Bolsonaro and the rest of the putschists convicted of attacking democracy. The decision comes a few days after the Bolsonaro clan launched its mayor, Flávio, senator, into the presidential career. Since November, the patriarch has been serving a 27-year prison sentence imposed on him by the Supreme Court for five crimes. The movement in Congress to reduce the sentences of the previous president intends to neutralize the prison of the Bolsonaro family so that their señorías approve an amnesty.
The session to approve the reduced sentences was called at random, very tumultuous – one MP was forcibly removed after the press was kicked out of the chamber – and ended four weeks ago. The nerves were broken and the skin was blooming. The rule approved by the Lower House will now be sent to the Senate, which is expected to vote on it before the end of the year. He will then go to the table of the president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to have him sanctioned. It is not excluded that the case will end up before the Supreme Court.
When the arrest of Donald Trump, President of the United States, failed to prevent the trial, Bolsonarism aspired to obtain an amnesty, but it did not obtain enough support among its senorías to undertake a step that would involve a challenge to the Supreme Court, which tried and convicted more than 600 people for participation in the conspiracy that resulted in the assault on the headquarters of the three powers. Bolsonaro is complying with the sentences of Brasilia’s main police commission, where he can receive visits twice a week.
Flávio Bolsonaro has relaunched demands for amnesty, nothing worse than announcing that his priest wanted him in next year’s elections as head of the list of the far-right movement he leads. Faced with the skepticism with which his candidacy had been received by many authorities, including those who fell from the Stock Exchange, Flávio decided to withdraw it – “I have a price for this”, he suggested – only to resign shortly after and proclaim: “my candidacy is irreversible”. In the workplace, negotiations are frenetic.
At the moment, Congress is opting for a medium-term solution, in accordance with the pactist tradition of Brazilians. “There is no possibility of amnesty. The only viable project to pacify Brazil is to reduce sanctions,” said MP Paulinho da Força, editor of the initiative, reports Reuters.
VIOLENCE AND CENSORSHIP!
When the putschists occupied the plenary session of the Chamber for 48 hours to blackmail amnesty to the putschists, President Hugo Motta remained docile, with a deputy who defended the honor of his mother and denounced the secret budget, the violence and censorship of the press remained.… pic.twitter.com/um9o0wl4JW– Sâmia Bomfim (@samiabomfim) December 9, 2025
It is still not clear what the new sanction imposed on the head of the Brazilian government would be, if the standard were definitively established. But it is estimated that the sentence would be reduced from 27 years to around 21 years and that the period under closed regime would be reduced from the current six years to a few years. President Bolsonaro is doubly disqualified from running for office.
Penalties for coup d’état have been reduced through the unification of the most serious crimes charged (coup d’état and violent abolition of the rule of law), so that only the most serious are applied. This means that the coup troops – those serving lesser sentences than those of the ex-president and the rest of the conspiracy top – could be granted semi-release in a short period of time.
The left-wing Partido de los Trabajadores, which leads Lula, voted against after having to maneuver throughout the day to appease the vote. The measure succeeded thanks to the support of Bolsonaro’s supporters and his allies. center (the large center, the acronyms which offer your support to the best poster).
The session began last night with an incident and a strong controversy. Left-wing MP Glauber Braga, of the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL), placed himself behind the president of the Chamber of Deputies with the intention of preventing the vote, imitating the tactic successfully used by Bolsonaro’s supporters a few weeks ago. The President of the House responded with expeditious measures to scandalize the left: he dismissed the journalists from the plenary, cut off the broadcast of the session and ordered the police to bring down the representative of Braga, known for his crusade against an opaque mechanism of parliamentary texts through which his señorías invested millions. government in its districts with little or no supervision.
Images taken in the chamber by those present show the dismal scene of the struggle between representatives and agents while decades of colleagues record them with their cell phones.
The Supreme Court and its most powerful judge, Alexandre de Moraes, swallowed another bitter pill this week. The Rio de Janeiro State Parliament managed to approve a motion by which the Speaker of the House was imprisoned, whom the judges sent to prison in front of suspects who had warned of a police operation to a former deputy allegedly linked to the Red Command. A recent operation against the criminal group resulted in 121 deaths.
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