Derrite proposes a sentence of up to 40 years and a veto of amnesty in the anti-gang bill.

Federal deputy Guilherme Derrite (PP-SP), rapporteur of the anti-gang bill sent by the Lula (PT) government, presented a substitute text this Friday, the 7th. The Secretary of Security of the Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicanos) government defended penal treatment equivalent to terrorism, with sentences of 20 to 40 years .

Derrite was in charge of the São Paulo state secretariat until last Wednesday. He was on leave from his mandate and returned to his position in order to report on the proposal in the plenary session .

In the substitute bill presented by Derrite, the former secretary criticized the Lula government's bill, stating that the text has "weaknesses" and "flagrant contradictions" in some sections.

In addition to increasing penalties, Derrite's text authorizes police infiltration into criminal organizations, including the creation of fictitious identities and simulated legal entities for undercover operations. Earlier, the congressman had already outlined the main points of his report on social media. The main changes are:

• Penalties ranging from 20 to 40 years are foreseen for actions committed by members of criminal organizations, such as city takeovers, modern-day banditry, attacks on armored vehicles, installation of barricades, attacks on prisons, among others;
• mandatory imprisonment in maximum security prisons for leaders of criminal organizations;
• Prohibition on granting amnesty, pardon, clemency, parole, and cutting off prison assistance for family members of people who commit these crimes; and
• The increase in the progression of prison regimes – that is, the necessary completion of the sentence for benefits such as semi-open regime – from 40% to at least 70%.

The PT leader in the Chamber of Deputies, Lindbergh Farias (RJ), criticized the choice of Derrite as rapporteur, which he called a "disrespect to President Lula." "The anti-gang bill is a priority for the Lula government, and placing it in the hands of Governor Tarcísio's security secretary borders on provocation. It seems like a deliberate interest in not approving it and hindering the progress of the government's priority agenda."

The Minister of Institutional Relations, Gleisi Hoffmann, also rejected Motta's selection. "The choice of the Secretary of Security of Governor Tarcísio de Freitas contaminates the debate with the electoral objectives of his political camp," she wrote in X.