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.
The thing is, in those cases of convictions for serious crimes, especially convictions that exceeded eight years, this would become, essentially, an ineffectual period of ineligibility, because let us suppose: someone convicted, for example, of corruption, to ten years, while serving the sentence has their political rights suspended and cannot run; if the eight years were counted from the conviction, when the sentence ended, the person would already be, in practice, eligible.
Sérgio Moro: We presented a suggestion – a drafting amendment – to the rapporteur of the bill, Senator Weverton.
Sérgio Moro: We presented that same amendment, likewise, to the President of the Senate, Senator Davi Alcolumbre, and there was, there, sensitivity, even because of the outcry that came from society – for example, from religious organizations, such as entities that gather evangelical pastors or even the CNBB – to accept this drafting amendment.