Amnesty Bill fast-tracked backed by from 51 lawmakers from the Amazon Region
17 de April de 2025
By Ana Cláudia Leocádio – From Cenarium
BRASÍLIA (DF) – Of the 264 parliamentarians who signed the urgency request for the vote on the bill that grants amnesty to those convicted for the events of 8 January 2023, 51 are deputies from the nine states of the Legal Amazon, accounting for nearly 20% of the total signatures collected. Only the state delegation from Rondônia, with eight members, gave full support to the urgency.
The request was filed by the leader of the Partido Liberal (Liberal Party (PL)), Sóstenes Cavalcante (PL-RJ), on Monday the 14th, in the Chamber of Deputies, as a strategy to prevent already secured signatures from being withdrawn. A minimum of 254 signatures was needed, but 264 were collected, two of which were invalidated.
According to the list published by Cavalcante, of the nine Amazonian states, Rondônia contributed with signatures from all eight of its delegation members. Next came the states of Roraima, Mato Grosso, and Maranhão, each with seven signatures. The difference is that Maranhão’s delegation is composed of 18 parliamentarians, while Tocantins and Mato Grosso have eight members each.
Of the eight-member Tocantins delegation, six signed the urgency request. The states of Acre and Pará provided five signatures each, with Pará holding 17 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, compared to eight from Acre. Amazonas and Amapá had three signatures each on the document.
In total, the support came from six political parties with representatives in the Amazon: PSD, União Brasil, MDB, PP, PL, and Republicanos. The PL, the party of former President Jair Bolsonaro, contributed the largest number of signatures, 16 in total, followed by União Brasil with 12. Republicanos provided eight, PP five, MDB four, and PSD three from the Amazon region.
With the request filed, the parliamentarians now await a decision from the President of the Chamber, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-AL), to bring the matter directly to a plenary vote, bypassing committee review. Since last year, former President Arthur Lira (PP-AL) had decided to set up a special committee to analyse the matter, which has yet to occur.
Hugo Motta speaks on democracy
On the morning of Tuesday the 15th, Hugo Motta posted on his Instagram profile the highlighted phrase: “Democracy is discussing with the College of Leaders the agendas that should move forward,” and added that “in a democracy, no one has the right to decide anything alone.” “It is also necessary to be responsible with the position we occupy, thinking about what each agenda means for the institutions and for the entire Brazilian population,” he concluded.
What the amnesty proposal says
Filed by former deputy Major Vitor Hugo (PL-GO) in the Chamber of Deputies on 24 November 2022, Bill 2.858 initially aimed to grant amnesty to people who participated in protests on 30 October 2022, against the election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), which culminated in the attacks on the buildings of the Three Branches of the Republic on 8 January 2023, in Brasília.
With the arrest and trial of hundreds involved in the acts of vandalism, opposition parliamentarians consider the sentences handed down by the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to be excessive and now seek to pardon the convicted.
What generates controversy is the expansion of Vitor Hugo’s original proposal, by stating that amnesty will cover “protesters, lorry drivers, businesspeople, and all those who participated in demonstrations on national highways, in front of military units or anywhere within the national territory from 30 October 2022 until the day this Law comes into force.”
This loophole in the text opens up interpretations suggesting it was crafted to benefit former President Jair Bolsonaro, who has become a defendant in the STF, alongside seven former allies, accused of leading the group that attempted to stage a coup and attack the democratic rule of law on 8 January.
Vitor Hugo’s text also includes crimes motivated by political reasons or electoral penalties and grants amnesty to those who financed, organised, and supported the protests and actions against the presidential election results of 2022.
Who are the Amazon region lawmakers who signed the urgency:
ACRE (5)
Coronel Ulysses (União)
Eduardo Velloso (União)
Roberto Duarte (Republicanos)
Zezinho Barbary (PP)
Zé Adriano (PP)
AMAPÁ (3)
Silvia Waiãpi (PL)
Vinicius Gurgel (PL)
Sonise Barbosa (PL)
AMAZONAS (3)
Capitão Alberto Neto (PL)
Fausto Júnior (União)
Silas Câmara (Republicanos)
MARANHÃO (7)
Josivaldo JP (PSD)
Allan Garcês (PP)
Detinha (PL)
Josimar Maranhãozinho (PL)
Junior Lourenço (PL)
Pastor Gil (PL)
Aluísio Mendes (Republicanos)
MATO GROSSO (7)
Coronel Assis (União)
Gisela Simona (União)
Juarez Costa (MDB)
Coronel Fernanda (PL)
José Medeiros (PL)
Rodrigo da Zaeli (PL)
Nelson Barbudo (PL
PARÁ (5)
Raimundo Santos (PSD)
Olival Marques (MDB)
Joaquim Passarinho (PL)
Delegado Caveira (PL)
Delegado Éder Mauro (PL)
RONDÔNIA (8)
Maurício Carvalho (União)
Cristiane Lopes (União)
Dr. Fernando Máximo (União)
Lebrão (União)
Thiago Flores (Republicanos)
Silvia Cristina (PP)
Coronel Chrisóstomo (PL)
Lúcio Mosquini (MDB)
RORAIMA (7)
Zé Haroldo Cathedral (PSD)
Pastor Diniz (União)
Nicoletti (União)
Duda Ramos (MDB)
Albuquerque (Republicanos)
Gabriel Mota (Republicanos)
Defensor Stélio Dener (Republicanos)
TOCANTINS (6)
Carlos Henrique Gagim (União)
Alexandre Guimarães (MDB)
Antonio Andrade (Republicanos)
Vicentinho Júnior (PP)
Filipe Martins (PL)
Eli Borges (PL)