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Brazil’s Lula says he now supports lowering age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16

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Brazil’s Lula says he now supports lowering age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16

The Guardian · Oct 16, 2026, 4:47 PM UTC

Lula reverses position on age of responsibility for ‘heinous’ crimes in what many see as a desperate electoral gambit Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has announced that he now supports lowering the age of criminal responsibility for “heinous” crimes from 18 to 16, reversing a longstanding policy in what is widely seen as a desperate…