🪺 Putting all eggs in the wrong basket?

In a Congress still operating semi-remotely as lawmakers shuttle back and forth from the COP30 climate summit in Belém, the House is weighing whether to vote on a bill targeting Brazil’s criminal organizations. 

What should have been a flagship security initiative for the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva administration has instead become a political quagmire: responsibility over the final draft of the proposal was given to far-right Congressman Guilherme Derrite, who stepped down from his position as São Paulo’s state security secretary specifically for the task of stealing the government’s thunder.

As the right seeks to unify its political platform around public security, Derrite was charged with reshaping the government’s proposal so comprehensively that any potential credit from its passage would go to conservatives alone. The risk, however, is that…

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