Dosimetry applies a massive dose against democracy.
The monstrosity approved in the Senate alters rules of the Penal Code and the Penal Execution Law. All the changes aim to benefit the coup plotters.
In an attempt to somehow mitigate the convictions for the attempted coup that culminated in the gruesome scenes of vandalism against the headquarters of the three branches of government on January 8, 2023, the majority of the Senate approved a so-called sentencing law that is blatantly unconstitutional and opportunistic.
As legal expert Lenio Streck pointed out in an interview with the program's panel. good night 247The approved text is riddled with flaws: it was sent directly to the President for approval when it should have returned to the Chamber of Deputies; it could not regulate the past or address particular cases; it is tainted by the evident intention of creating a law to privilege a group of people; and, moreover, it is unconstitutional because it contains an instrument for weakening the Constitution itself.
President Lula has already stated that he will veto the bill sent by the Senate.
Fortunately, Minister Alexandre de Moraes himself, who is leading the proceedings against the coup plotters, will also be the rapporteur for the writ of mandamus against the Senate vote, filed by the leader of the Workers' Party in the Chamber of Deputies, Lindbergh Farias. Moraes went to the heart of the matter when he said that "reducing sentences would send a message to society that Brazil tolerates or will tolerate further flirtations with democracy."
In fact, by emptying, through flawed expedients, the legal instruments for defending the democratic regime, the very reason for the Constitution's existence, it is democracy itself that is undermined, in Streck's definition. good night 247which is reduced to something second-hand.
The monstrosity approved in the Senate alters rules of the Penal Code and the Penal Execution Law. All the changes aim to benefit the coup plotters. However, inside the monster, a repulsive hairy leg haunts the power of the people: in the so-called "crimes of the mob," actions against the... democratic rule of law In practice, they are pardoned, being absorbed by the crime of coup d'état.
Through tactics like this, in the eagerness to reduce the sentence for Bolsonaro and his group, democracy is once again violated.
