President of the Evangelical Parliamentary Front, deputy Eli Borges (PL-TO)| Photo: Vinicius Loures/Chamber of Deputies

The Evangelical Parliamentary Front released, this Saturday (29), a public note directing evangelical deputies to vote against the Fake News PL. The project should be voted on in the Plenary of the Chamber of Deputies, next Tuesday (2).

According to the bench, the text has provisions that “penalize the plurality of ideas and especially Christian values”. “The FPE understands that the defense of its guidelines linked to the Christian faith are non-negotiable, and the genuinely Christian parliamentarian understands this, and will never negotiate the sacred right to guarantee religious and democratic freedom, individual and collective, as stipulated in the Magna Carta”, says the bench in the document, signed by the president of the Front, deputy Eli Borges (PL-TO).

In the note, the bench also points out that “more than 40% of the articles in the report” were not subject to a public hearing, and assesses that the text provides “a blank check” for the federal government to regulate, by decree, the activity of platforms.

“We saw, with great fear, the permanence of the duty of care obligations that include preventive actions by digital platforms and other mass communication vehicles in the country, and even worse, the delegation of the CGI Internet Management Committee”, explains the bench.

The national president of the Republicans, deputy Marcos Pereira (SP), also guided the bench to vote against the Fake News PL, this Saturday (29). According to the leader of the acronym, even with some suggestions from the Republicans accepted in the final text, the project remains “bad”. “Republicans will vote no, but not because they believe the issue doesn’t need regulation. Must have, yes. But this is not what is being proposed at the moment. We will continue to discuss and seek a better text for the future”, commented Pereira.