Is there a lack of transparency in the discussion about changes to the Civil Code?

The Federal Senate recently began discussing the update of the Brazilian Civil Code in which it changes the current version in a large part of its entire structure. A commission of jurists has already prepared a preliminary report with changes that, according to reports, would meet the demands of abortionism, identityism and gender ideology, radically altering the concepts of family and person in legislation.

The document, to which the People’s Gazette had access (see in full), has been provoking debates in parliament and has placed senators such as Eduardo Girão (Novo-CE) on a collision course with the president of the house, senator Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), who says he is being targeted by fake news attacks.

The commission of jurists that is preparing the draft is chaired by Luis Felipe Salomão, national inspector of Justice and minister of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ). The document’s rapporteur is Rosa Maria de Andrade Nery and Flávio Tartuce.

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Despite reaffirming that all proposals highlighted by the commission of jurists will be discussed in plenary, Pacheco faces distrust from senators due to the document’s processing and the tight deadline for popular participation, just two weeks.

To date, Brazil has only had two Civil Codes: the one from 1916 and the current one, which dates back to 2002. For the production of the Civil Code currently in vogue, there were decades of maturation and broad debate. The draft of the 2002 document began to be prepared at the end of the 1960s, which reflects the importance given to parsimony in the reformulation of the document that governs civil relations in the country.

In other countries, the situation tends to be similar. In Germany and France, recent reforms of a smaller scale than those expected to be processed in the Brazilian Senate have been debated for more than ten years.