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24 statements · 1 politicians · September 3, 2025
Statements by Sérgio Moro. 24 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Electoral Process, Campaign Financing, Organized Crime.
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- Neutral
About: update the Lei da Ficha Limpa
Confúcio, thank you very much. Senator Girão, Senator Cleitinho, my peers, Senators as well, look, yesterday we voted here on Complementary Bill 192, which amended the Clean Record Law, and the bill that came from the Chamber had some problems.
- Neutral
About: reduce the ineligibility period for convicted persons
It reduced, in practice, significantly, the period of ineligibility for people who had committed crimes.
- Neutral
About: prevent registration of candidacies of people who committed crimes
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.
- Neutral
About: prevent campaign financing by criminal organizations
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.
- For
About: maintain ineligibility rules of the Clean Record Law
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.
- For
About: maintain ineligibility rules of the Clean Record Law
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.
- Neutral
About: establish ineligibility for eight years from conviction by a collegiate body
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.
- For
About: maintain ineligibility rules of the Clean Record Law
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.
- For
About: maintain ineligibility rules of the Clean Record Law
We presented a suggestion – a drafting amendment – to the rapporteur of the bill, Senator Weverton.
- For
About: maintain ineligibility rules of the Clean Record Law
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.
- For
About: maintain ineligibility rules of the Clean Record Law
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.
- Neutral
About: maintain ineligibility rules of the Clean Record Law
Despite some targeted adjustments, the current rules of ineligibility for those who are convicted of serious crimes were maintained.
- Neutral
About: maintain ineligibility rules of the Clean Record Law
So, Senator Confúcio, for example, for those convicted of drug trafficking, for those convicted of corruption, for those convicted of embezzlement, for those convicted of heinous crimes, the rules provided in the original text of the Clean Record Law are maintained, that is, they will be ineligible from the conviction by a collegiate body until the end of the completion of the sentence plus eight years.
- For
About: maintain ineligibility rules of the Clean Record Law
Does it seem exaggerated? I do not believe so. One who betrayed the trust of the population, for example by appropriating public resources, one who agreed to receive a bribe, or one who became involved in a criminal organization—the longer they remain away from politics the better.
- For
About: maintain ineligibility rules of the Clean Record Law
Of course we expect the voter to apply that filter, for the voter to exercise that scrutiny, but it is important, yes, to establish legal barriers, since many times the commission of certain offenses can even serve as a kind of competitive advantage over those who correctly abide by the law.
- For
About: maintain ineligibility rules of the Clean Record Law
Yesterday there was a victory for society with regard to the maintenance of the current rules of the Clean Record Law.
I am happy to have participated in that construction.
- For
About: maintain ineligibility rules of the Clean Record Law
I presented this proposal for a drafting adjustment; this drafting adjustment was accepted by Senator Weverton and likewise here by the Board, by President Davi, and likewise by our peers.
- For
About: maintain ineligibility rules of the Clean Record Law
This ensured that the core, the essence of the Clean Record Law, which is to keep out of politics those who committed serious crimes—such as crimes against the administration, drug trafficking crimes, heinous crimes, crimes committed by criminal organizations—remain distant from politics.
- Neutral
About: combat infiltration of organized crime and money laundering in economic sectors
And we saw the importance of this last week, when the news came of that major police operation that brought together Gaeco, the Federal Police, state police forces, the Federal Revenue Service and state revenue authorities against the PCC, against the infiltration of the PCC in the fuel market.
- For
About: prevent campaign financing by criminal organizations
This same infiltration, let us not be deluded... With the financial power of these organizations, they can easily finance electoral candidacies in city councils, in municipal governments and, perhaps, even in federal legislative bodies or in the Executive Branch, including at the state or federal level.
- For
About: establish legal protections against infiltration of organized crime into politics
So, yes, we must have legal protection against these incursions by the world of crime.
- For
About: maintain ineligibility rules of the Clean Record Law
Yesterday, what we had was not, strictly speaking, a defeat for society, but rather the maintenance of an achievement that came with the Clean Record Law and that the Senate had the wisdom to preserve in its essence.
- For
About: maintain ineligibility rules of the Clean Record Law
Of course there can be criticism of the targeted adjustments that were made, but, Senator Cleitinho, the essence of the Clean Record Law was preserved by the agreement that was reached here in this House yesterday.
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