Minister Ricardo Lewandowski, of Justice and Public Security, statedon Tuesday night (11), hope that the Anti-Faction bill, authored by the government and sent to the Chamber on October 31st, will be used “in 100% or 90%”. He cited surprise at the “speed” with which the report on the bill was presented and said that part of the opinion related to the Federal Police is “unconstitutional”.
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Lewandowski answered questions from journalists about the project, while participating in the opening of the 26th National Congress of the Public Ministry, in Brasília.
After demonstrations by the project rapporteur, deputy Guilherme Derrite (PP-SP), representatives of the federal government and also the Federal Police expressed concern about the final text which will be presented to the House plenary, expected to be voted on this Wednesday (12).
Among the setbacks, Derrite defended the equation of factions with terrorism and that the Federal Police could have weakened operations with the supposed need for authorizations from state governors.
Hugo Motta, president of the Chamber of Deputies, and Guilherme Derrite, denied these possibilities during an interview this Tuesday.
Lewandowski said that he watched the parliamentarians’ interview this afternoon and that understood that both guaranteed “in all words” that there was no chance of changes of this nature in the original project, but he is still unsure of the content of the final report.
Unconstitutional
The Minister of Justice considered that conditioning the The action of the Federal Police following authorization from state governments is unconstitutional, as the corporation’s powers are already provided for by lawand cannot be changed by ordinary law.
“It would not be possible for an ordinary law to restrict the competence of the Federal Police, especially to establish that the police would only intervene in the states to combat criminal organizations or criminal factions if authorized by the State governor. This would be inconceivable, this would be clearly unconstitutional. We pointed out other points that we consider contrary to the Constitution”, he stated.
Three reports in 72 hours
Despite the deputies’ statements, the minister told journalists that he still not sure what changes Derrite will present in the report to the Chamber. He found it strange that the final text was presented in a short time for a project that was prepared in more than six months.
“It’s a much discussed project, a lot of work, and, suddenly, we were surprised by a report that was done in 24 hours. Within 48 hours, another report was done. And in another 24 hours, a third report will be presented”, he criticized.
Lewandowski once again defended the project prepared by the federal government, by increasing penalties, considering gang crime a heinous crime and establishing the creation of a national bank of members of criminal organizations.
“We have established an extremely sophisticated mechanism for decapitalizing organized crime. Therefore, it is a complete project,” he added.
