Overview
- Senators approved the sentence-application bill 48–25 after the lower house cleared it last week.
- President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he will veto the legislation, though Congress retains the power to overturn a veto.
- The proposal would reduce Jair Bolsonaro’s prison time from 27 years to roughly two years and four months.
- The text grants conditional release provisions for dozens convicted over the January 8, 2023 attacks on Brasilia’s institutions.
- Large demonstrations opposing the bill drew tens of thousands nationwide as Bolsonaro remains jailed in Federal Police facilities in Brasilia.