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.
Sérgio Moro: 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.
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.
Sérgio Moro: The text that was approved yesterday – we need to make a clarification here about how it has been reported – does not represent such a significant rollback compared to what was provided in the Clean Record Law.