Sérgio Moro: Let us remember that the Clean Record Law was a popular initiative proposal, much celebrated at the time, and its objective is to shield the political world, to prevent those who committed crimes, those who broke the law, from running for office and bringing that negative influence into their positions.
Sérgio Moro: Moreover, certain infractions and violations and even crimes can give a competitive advantage to a candidate to the detriment of others – take, for example, a candidate who has ties to, who is a member of, a criminal organization, and that criminal organization will be able to finance him and will have no limits on that financing.
So, when it was approved, the Clean Record Law was a great achievement of society to put a wall between the world of crime and the world of politics.
Sérgio Moro: This proposal that came from the Chamber aimed to make some adjustments – targeted adjustments – to the Clean Record Law, but it went a bit further than it should have, and it turned out that the text that came from the Chamber was reducing the periods of ineligibility even for those convicted of criminal activity.
Sérgio Moro: As established in the Clean Record Law, whoever was convicted of certain crimes would be ineligible from the conviction by a collegiate body until the completion of the sentence, and then eight more years would be counted; the proposal that came from the Chamber established this eight-year period counted from the conviction by a collegiate body.