The president of the (Supreme Federal Court), stated this Wednesday (13) that the court will resist “any authoritarian impetus that comes from anywhere in the world”.
He made the statement while listing his main concerns, in a talk at the Brasil do Lide Forum, held in Brasília.
One of them, he said, is a “new international order in which there is a risk to multilateralism, in which there is a risk of a new authoritarian wave coming.” “We need to resist,” he further stated.
Although he made no name reference to the North American politician, the speech takes place after the election of President of the United States.
When asked by other participants at the table if he saw any new authoritarian threat to Brazil, the president of the Supreme Court stated that, here, “we contained it”.
“It is a threat that has fortunately been overcome in Brazil, and there is greater institutional normality for the country and a good relationship between the Powers,” he stated.
“Brazil lives institutional normality with the natural divergences of a democratic life. Unique thinking only exists in a dictatorship.”
As shown by Sheetshortly after Trump’s election, STF ministers privately stated that the Republican’s return to the White House in relation to the convictions of ineligibility imposed on () nor on investigations already advanced, such as the one dealing with the coup plot that culminated in the attacks of 8 January 2023.
Despite this, judges say they believe that political pressure may grow for the former president to have his ineligibility reversed via a pardon given by the National Congress.
At this Wednesday’s event, Barroso also listed climate change, legal security, basic education and what he calls a “return to civility” as his concerns.
According to him, people need to “sit back at the same table without disqualifying each other.”
He also mentioned the parliamentary amendments, and said that the three Powers are making an effort to “try to give a little more rationality, traceability, controllability to the public budget”.
“The volume of individual amendments, committee amendments and bench amendments, most of which are mandatory, reaches a percentage that is higher than the average practiced in all OECD countries [Organização para a Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Econômico]”, he stated.
