Such provision would prevent or not the candidacy for elective office of persons without moral requirements necessary for the exercise of the political mandate.

Last week, Senator Weverton Rocha, requested the postponement of the vote on the so-called Complementary Bill (PLP) 192/2023, which aims to unify the period of electoral impediment in eight years for judicial convictions, cessations or resignations of mandate.

Currently, politicians convicted of common crimes are considered ineligible during the term of their sentence and for another eight years after its expiration.

The new proposal not only anticipates the beginning of the computation of this term, but also establishes a maximum limit of 12 years for the total phase of ineligibility, even in cases of multiple convictions.

The bill, written by Federal Deputy Dani Cunha, modifies the Ineligibility Law (Complementary Law 64, of 1990) so that the period in which the person cannot be a candidate is counted from the date of the decision that determines the loss of the mandate.

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