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53 statements · 1 politicians · December 16, 2025
Statements by Sérgio Moro. 53 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Political Governance, Ethics and Public Integrity, Combating Impunity, Foreign Policy and Diplomacy.
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Mr. Senators, Madam Senators; Acting President, Senator Izalci, with the legislative year drawing to a close, it is natural to take stock.
- Neutral
About: develop a realistic government plan with clear priorities
And, despite everything, I have always said that Brazil, since Lula was elected President again, has been directionless.
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About: promote integrity and accountability in the public sector
There is no national project, and the country is experiencing a profound inversion of values, in which what is wrong ends up being valued and what is right is, often, persecuted.
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About: combat corruption in the federal government
We saw the return of widespread corruption; we saw the return of a lack of ethics and lack of limits; we experienced an escalation of organized crime; we watched Brazil, on the international stage, suffer successive embarrassments, including, for example, sending a FAB plane to rescue and grant asylum to the First Lady of Peru, Nadine Heredia, convicted of corruption.
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About: condemn the invasion of Ukraine and avoid praising aggressive regimes
We also saw, on the international stage, Lula applauding the troops that invaded Ukraine, there in Russia, together with several dictators from more obscure countries.
This profound inversion of values disappoints us and leaves us disheartened and skeptical about what will happen.
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About: approve opposition agendas
But, to some extent, Senator Izalci, this is a year in which opposition agendas began to appear and began to be approved.
I refer here, specifically, in this second half of the year, to the public security agenda.
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About: toughen criminal law
I have always defended the toughening of criminal law and criminal procedural law.
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About: increase rigor in combating crime and incarcerating criminals
The major problem of the advance of criminality in Brazil, besides sometimes structural reasons, is leniency toward the criminal, that outdated view — which, unfortunately, is even common — that the criminal is a victim of society, which we know is false.
Crime is, usually, a rational activity. It is a mixture of an assessment of risk and opportunity.
The greater the opportunity and the lower the risk, the more crimes we will have.
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About: implement a lasting, planned public security policy
So it is indeed the role of the State, of the Government, to promote preventive mechanisms to reduce opportunity and, on the other hand, to promote repressive mechanisms so that illicit acts are identified and, when identified, severely punished.
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About: approve public security measures in the National Congress
But if it was almost impossible to approve any measure in this area in this Congress, unfortunately, under the influence of Lula's government base, we have now seen this change in the second half of the year.
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About: end temporary prison furloughs (saidinhas)
Last year, we only managed to pass the law that ended temporary prison leaves, the so-called 'saidinhas' — Lula vetoed it and then that veto was overturned — but this year we saw the Government itself become concerned and finally take some initiative, submitting the Public Security PEC.
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About: amend the Constitution to toughen public security policies
Many limitations, but at least that gave — and gives the Congress — the opportunity to amend the Constitution to truly pursue what we need.
And, over in the Chamber of Deputies, a report was recently presented by Deputy Mendonça Filho, who, by the way, is from União Brasil, the party to which I am also affiliated.
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About: approve the Chamber of Deputies' report that tightens public security measures
And it is a text that advances significantly and is much better than the original bill presented by the Federal Government.
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About: approve and implement the anti-faction law and the Public Security PEC to increase cooperation
Similarly, the Government presented, in the wake of that Operação Contenção, after months of stalling between the Casa Civil and the Ministry of Justice, a bill called Antifacção to confront the challenge of criminal organizations.
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About: implement stricter criminal legislation against organized crime
And the Government's original bill, although it even had positive points, let's acknowledge, was timid — excessively timid — because, within the Government's internal debate, the understanding prevailed that crime is still a social problem, that crime is still a problem of society, and the criminal is a victim of that environment, which is an absolutely outdated view.
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About: approve and implement the anti-faction law and the Public Security PEC to increase cooperation
But in the Chamber, the bill was assigned to Deputy Derrite, also Secretary of Public Security of São Paulo, who put the bill on the right track.
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About: approve a tough law against organized crime
Really, a tough law against organized crime, and that was fundamentally important.
This bill came here to the Senate and we worked on it.
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About: implement stricter criminal legislation against organized crime
I presented several amendments and the Rapporteur, Senator Alessandro Vieira, made adjustments to the bill that came from the Chamber, but he moved in the same direction — toward the need, indeed, for a real hardening against organized crime, both in terms of penalties and typification, but equally with respect to introducing into our legal system forms of financing public security and, likewise, new instruments for investigating the criminal phenomenon.
The bill returns to the Chamber now; we will await developments, but large steps have been taken in this area.
It's even a contrast, because I recall that when I was Minister of Justice, we sought the Executive branch's toughening of criminal and criminal procedural legislation and found resistance in Congress, because at the time the PT and parties linked to the left always made any kind of toughening difficult.
Today, Congress predominantly desires the toughening of criminal laws and finds in the Government a partner, albeit a timid one, but a partner so that at least we can move forward on some agendas.
I myself, in the last 30 days, managed, Senator Izalci, to make viable three bills in which I was involved.
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About: criminalize planning attacks against law enforcement agents and protect inactive agents
One of them, PL 15.245, of which I was the author, is a bill that criminalizes the planning of attacks against law enforcement officers and also provides legal cover for the protection of law enforcement officers who are not active, so they can be protected from risks related to organized crime if those risks arose as a result of the service they provided.
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About: change criteria for regime progression and custody hearings to reduce impunity
We also managed to approve Law 15.272. In that bill I was the Rapporteur here in the Senate, and it places limitations on releases at custody hearings.
Custody hearings, to which those arrested in flagrante are taken after arrest, have unfortunately become a revolving door for criminals.
Statistics show 60% of those arrested in flagrante being released, sometimes for serious crimes, and sometimes even in atrocious cases.
Although many judges do their job well, there is unfortunately also contamination among a portion of them by that view of the criminal as a victim of society.
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About: change criteria for regime progression and custody hearings to reduce impunity
And this bill comes at a good time to try to close that door, establishing objective criteria that recommend the decreeing of preventive detention for certain circumstances: serious crimes, repeated offenses, crimes committed by criminal organizations and, primarily, people who were already released at previous custody hearings and who must be kept detained.
There cannot be that catch-and-release between the police and the criminal, because it ends up generating a sense of impunity and the demoralization of Justice.
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About: expand the national DNA bank of criminals
And, more recently, we also approved a new bill, of which I was Rapporteur here in the Senate, that expands our national criminal DNA database, which is a powerful instrument for criminal investigation — it is the modern fingerprint: if the criminal leaves any bodily trace at the crime scene — and this is especially relevant for violent crimes, for organized crime, crimes that involve some physical involvement by the criminal — there is great potential for him to be promptly identified, including reducing investigation costs, reducing impunity, and we have several examples to that effect in Brazil.
This bill was approved in Congress, went to the Planalto (Presidential Palace), and is still pending sanction or veto; the deadline is set for the 22nd.
But although there is still much to advance — we need to advance a great deal regarding public security in the country — at least we are seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.
At least now, in this third year of this ruinous administration of the Planalto (Presidential Palace), we are managing to reverse the logic of the citizen always unprotected against the criminal.
Who knows; next year we may be able to advance even more.
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