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Chamber Names Leaders of Special Committee to Review Cut in Age of Criminal Responsibility

The appointments set up a merit-stage review that will begin after the parliamentary recess and could move a constitutional change to full votes only if it wins large cross‑party support.

Aluisio Mendes, Hugo Motta e Mendonça Filho durante anúncio sobre presidência e relatoria da PEC da redução da maioridade penal.
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Overview

  • Chamber President Hugo Motta designated Aluisio Mendes to preside over the special committee and Mendonça Filho to serve as rapporteur for the PEC that would lower the age of criminal responsibility.
  • The committee’s formal installation is scheduled for the second week of August after the parliamentary recess, at which point it will open hearings and start debating the proposal’s merits.
  • The special committee will examine policy substance, hold public hearings, accept written suggestions and consider parliamentary amendments before the rapporteur drafts a report for a committee vote.
  • If the committee approves the report, the PEC moves to the Chamber plenary for two rounds of voting needing at least 308 deputies in each round and then to the Senate for CCJ review and two plenary rounds requiring 49 favorable senators.
  • The issue is politically charged and highly visible; the appointees’ party ties and Motta’s framing of the measure as a public demand mean the process will hinge on building cross‑bench support and could return to the Chamber if the Senate alters the text.