Post-Election Congress Ramps Up Agenda of Amazon Destruction, by Rafael Moro Martins – 27 October 2026

From SUMAÚMA

Bills ending remote embargoes on deforested areas and allowing the Agriculture Ministry to interfere in environmental oversight are headed toward passage, in a taste of what is in store for 2027

With elections coming to an end on Sunday, October 25, another battleground of threats to the preservation of Nature and Brazil’s biomes will be reopened in the National Congress.

Even with the reelection of president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party), most of the caucuses of right and far-right deputies, like the ruralist caucus, will likely press for bills that unravel the demarcation of Indigenous Territories, reduce the size of conservation units, or make remote embargoes on illegally deforested properties unworkable to become law before 2026 ends.

It is a taste of what Congress has in store after February 2027, when the deputies and senators elected on October 4 will take office. In the Chamber of Deputies and especially in the Senate, the far right edged out members of the Centrão coalition, and Flávio Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party will now have the largest caucuses in the two legislative bodies.

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