Deputies approve changes to the Clean Record Law

The Chamber of Deputies approved this Thursday (14) the Complementary Law project (PLP) 192/23, which changes deadlines in the Clean Record Law, to privilege politicians who have been convicted. The proposal is one of the divided projects of the electoral mini-reform to speed up voting. The base text with the electoral changes was approved this Thursday (14).

The project, which goes to the Senate, unifies deadlines for removing candidates from public office and reconciles the Clean Record with the new rule on administrative improbity. For the rapporteur, deputy Rubens Pereira Júnior (PT-MA), the changes are necessary because the current law is disproportionate and there is no equality between political agents.

According to the approved proposal, impeached and convicted politicians will not be able to be elected for eight years from their conviction, a shorter period than currently foreseen, which is counted from the end of their sentence or mandate. The rules will apply immediately, including to existing convictions, and ineligibility cannot exceed 12 years.

The text also extends from 4 months to 6 months the period of disqualification (removal from office) required for the candidacy of politicians, police officers, public servants and members of the Public Ministry and the Public Defender’s Office.

In case of conviction for administrative improbity, the project provides that ineligibility will depend on the intention to break the law (intent). The objective is to include changes already made to the Administrative Improbity Law in the electoral law.

If the project is sanctioned, the impeached senators, deputies and councilors running for the Legislative position will be ineligible for eight years from the date of conviction, and no longer for the end of the legislature, as the current legislation provides.

Check out the main changes, according to information from Chamber Agency:

Executive
What it’s like today: Impeached governors, vice-governors, mayors and vice-mayors are ineligible during the remaining period of the term for which they were elected and in the eight years after the end of the legislature.
What it will be like: senators, deputies and councilors impeached by the legislative house will be ineligible for eight years from the date of loss of office.

Cassation by electoral justice
What it’s like today: Politicians revoked by decision of the regional electoral courts or the Superior Electoral Court are ineligible for elections to be held in the following eight (eight) years.
What it will be like: Politicians revoked by decision of the regional electoral courts or the Superior Electoral Court will be impeached for eight years from the date of the election in which the abusive practice occurred.

Convicted by Justice
What it’s like today: Persons convicted by collegial decision are ineligible from the moment of conviction until eight (eight) years after serving their sentence.
What it will be like: Persons convicted by collegiate decision are ineligible for a period of eight years after conviction.