President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated, this Wednesday (19), that the Senate must analyze the Anti-Faction Bill (PL) with dialogue and responsibility. In a post on social media, Lula criticized the changes made by the Chamber of Deputies to the text sent by the government which, according to him, weaken the fight against organized crime.
“It is important that dialogue and responsibility prevail in the Senate in analyzing the project so that Brazil actually has effective instruments in confronting criminal factions,” he wrote.
“We need firm and secure laws to combat organized crime. The project approved yesterday by the Chamber changed central points of the Anti-Faction PL that our government presented. As it stands, it weakens the fight against crime and creates legal uncertainty. Exchanging the right for the dubious only favors those who want to escape the law”, he added.
Lula declared that the government is committed to strengthening the Federal Police, greater integration between security forces and expanding intelligence work to confront criminal factions and their financing structures.
On Tuesday night (18), by 370 to 110 votes, the Chamber approved the text of the Anti-Faction Bill (PL 5582/2025)which aims to combat organized crime. The deputies accepted the text presented by the rapporteur, deputy Guilherme Derrite (PP-SP), who changed parts of the original proposal sent by the Executive. He presented, at least, five versions of the report.
The project provides for harsher penalties for members of criminal factions and seizure of assets of those being investigated. Among other topics, the text also creates the definition of an ultra-violent criminal organization, despite criticism that pointed out that the creation of a new criminal type could generate a legal chaos in judicial processes that tend to benefit criminals.
Hugo Motta
After Lula’s post, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), also spoke out on social media about the approval of the PL, saying that the population cannot be misinformed “with untruths”. For him, the government chose the “wrong path” in negotiating the text.
Before the vote, government deputies even requested that the project be removed from the agenda, as the original text had been “disconfigured”. But Motta maintained the vote, arguing that the text would be the “toughest” response in the Chamber’s history in combating organized crime.
He stated that the federal government’s original project brought positive points, but that more attention was needed from other sectors and benches.
“It is very serious that an attempt is made to distort the effects of a Legal Framework for Combating Organized Crime whose purpose is to reinforce the State’s capacity for public security,” wrote Motta, this Wednesday.
“We are not going to face street violence with false narratives. We need to be united at this moment. The government chose the wrong path by not forming this chain of unity to combat crime”, he added.
