Security PEC passes in the Senate without a vote against and the age of criminal responsibility is left out
Text sent by the Executive makes the penalties applied to leaders of criminal organizations tougher; the age of criminal responsibility was separated and continues on another front.
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The Senate approved the Public Security PEC on Tuesday (3), in two rounds, according to Money Times. The score was 73-0 in the first round and 75-0 in the second, well above the minimum 49 votes required. According to InfoMoney, the Lula government adopted the text, which is now headed for promulgation, with a date to be defined.
Authored by the Executive, the proposal toughens penalties and restricts the regimes of faction and militia leaders. According to Money Times, the text also redesigns the relationship between federal entities: public security becomes a task divided by the Union, the states and the municipalities.
The most disputed part was left out. By 38 to 36, the plenary decided to separate the age of criminal responsibility from the text and treat it separately, according to InfoMoney. The suggestion came from Eduardo Braga (MDB-AM), Lula's ally, in Tuesday's session. According to the Executive's design, the criminal age would be 16 years old in serious crimes and 18 years old in other cases.
On Wednesday (4), the Senate must vote on a request for a special calendar for the government project. According to InfoMoney, this measure would shorten the path of Camilo Santana's (PT-CE) text, making it possible to vote on it in a single day and eliminating the need for committee analysis. The opposition wants another design: Rogério Marinho (PL-RN), leader of the opposition, defends 16 years in general and 14 years in heinous crimes.
Regarding the working day, Estadão reports that Teresa Leitão (PT-PE), who heads the government bench in the Senate, said on Tuesday that there is no need for a new PEC. According to her, exceptions to the 6x1 scale would be regulated by a complementary bill. Constitutional Amendment 141 appears as the milestone that ended the 6x1 scale, and the government assesses which categories with different journeys can follow this path.
What changes for the investor
The most direct effect of an agenda easily approved in the plenary is the reduction of short-term political uncertainty, as the score indicates a broad base of support. The part that interests the market most, however, is still open: the age of criminal responsibility has been separated, the calendar depends on a vote on Wednesday and the regulation of working hours goes to a complementary law. From the perspective of fiscal responsibility, the central question is how much these measures cost and who will foot the bill for the new federative pact. The information collected does not provide a cost estimate, and this data must be monitored in Congress's next steps. None of this allows you to project prices or indicate investment decisions.
Automatically translated from Portuguese.
