The Senate approved a bill that could cut Jair Bolsonaro's 27-year sentence and will send it to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has said he will veto it, after the Chamber of Deputies had already passed the text.The measure retroactively limits the aggregation of penalties and expedites progression to less restrictive regimes, with rapporteur Paulinho da Força estimating Bolsonaro's time in a closed regime could fall to just over two years while other experts give a two- to three-year range.Critics and tens of thousands of protesters in Brasília, São Paulo, Florianópolis, Salvador and Recife say the change undermines accountability for the January 8, 2023 assault on the capital, and legal challenges to applying the law to
Supreme Court sentences are expected.
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