The Chamber of Deputies postponed, this Wednesday (27), the analysis of the admissibility of the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) that provides for the reduction of the age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16 years.
The proposal was on the agenda of the Constitution and Justice Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, and the vote was suspended after a request for review presented by deputies Sâmia Bomfim, Érika Kokay, Talíria Petrone, and Orlando Silva.
The text was authored by Representative Colonel Assis and was the only item on the committee's agenda for this session.
If the admissibility is approved by the CCJ (Committee on Constitution, Justice and Citizenship), the PEC (Proposed Constitutional Amendment) will proceed to a special committee, responsible for discussing the merits of the proposal. Afterwards, the text will still need to be voted on in two rounds in the Chamber's plenary session, where it requires the support of at least three-fifths of the deputies to move forward.
The proposal to lower the age of criminal responsibility has returned to the center of political debate in recent weeks following efforts by opposition parliamentarians to expedite the measure's passage.
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