Amidst a scenario of divergences, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), decided to postpone until next Tuesday (18), as the sole agenda, the discussion and vote on the replacement for the Anti-Faction Bill (PL 5582/2025).
He responded to a request from deputy Guilherme Derrite (PP-SP), rapporteur of the text that received, in the Chamber, the name Legal Framework for Combating Organized Crime. According to him, the purpose of the postponement was to make “final adjustments” and “editorial corrections”.
Derrite guaranteed that the project authored by the federal government brings “good initiatives” that “are being used” in the replacement. He said he adhered to other suggestions he had received from parliamentarians.
“The latest opinion is already in the system with several adjustments that have been made”, he explained.
The deputy argued that the replacement text “was never a finish line, but rather a starting point (…) I thank all the benches and all the demands presented from all political parties and various ideological aspects”.
Technical work
Hugo Motta stated that Derrite has done “eminently technical work”.
“No one is interested in driving the public security agenda in a rushed manner. We don’t want to rush with this agenda”, stated the president of the Chamber.
Motta considered that Derrite maintained the “many positive points that came from the government”, and that he is adding a series of other changes to the “new legal framework for combating organized crime”.
Government criticism
Motta’s decision to postpone comes after criticism from the federal government of Guilherme Derrite’s third opinion. The Ministry of Justice published a note stating that the latest report presented had the potential to create “true legal chaos”.
The government also pointed out that the “normative turmoil” could benefit criminals investigated in procedures already initiated. According to the government note, in the opinion filed with the Chamber on Tuesday (11), there are “points that represent unacceptable legal and institutional setbacks”.
The government assesses that there is an insistence on “financially weakening the Federal Police” and the other security forces of the Union.
In the note, the Ministry of Justice considers that it follows “with concern” the sequence of reports presented to the Chamber of Deputies by the rapporteur, who is a licensed secretary of public security for the government of São Paulo. The government asked that the decision not be “hasty”, the same word that Hugo Motta would later use to justify the postponement.
On the other hand, earlier, four governors opposing the federal Executive asked for another month to discuss the project.
