Lawyer Beto Simonetti, 46, was reelected on Friday (31) for another three-year term as national president of (Brazilian Bar Association).
Its and was chosen through the vote of the Federal OAB Counselors – a state and the Federal District have three chairs on the board. Simonetti was unanimously elected, with 81 votes from all sectional of the country.
The session took place at the (Superior Court of Justice) in Brasilia, due to the damage caused by one. The inauguration of the board and the new federal counselors, elected at the end of last year, takes place this Saturday (1st), also at the STJ, in a ceremony that is scheduled for 9am.
This is the first time at least since the redemocratization that the lawyer in charge of the Order has been reappointed to office.
Manauara and criminal lawyer, Simonetti holds a degree in law from Nilton Lins University and a postgraduate degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure from the Federal University of Amazonas. It is the second Amazonian to preside over the OAB after Bernardo Cabral.
After the election, he made a brief thanks to the counselors and greeted the board with him elected, and said that the state and federal counselors understood the meaning and need for unity in order.
“The union will lead us to conquer and overcome any and all fountains and attack that tries to the law. Live the law of Brazil,” said the reelected president of the entity.
At the beginning of Friday’s session, a minute of silence was made in honor of and one of the authors of the former president’s request in 1992, who died this month.
also in a single plate election, he received 77 of 80 votes. At the time, he held the position of secretary general of the entity.
Its main agenda earlier this year has been, which provides for oral support recorded in virtual judgments. On Wednesday (29), the minister, president of the body, authorized the expansion of the deadline for courts to adapt to the rule, which is criticized by the entity.
In the end of the mandate, the lawyer avoided spotlight and confrontations, in contrast to that of the predecessor, whose management ended marked by clashes with the then president ().
Nevertheless, Simonetti climbed the tone with (Supreme Court), as when he stated that Brazilian law does not allow the victim to judge his own case.
The OAB also sent to the Senate a suggestion of PEC (proposal of amendment to the Constitution) to ensure that lawyers could make oral support in courts, after negatives in the Supreme who had the protagonism of the magistrate.
In addition, under its presidency, the order was positioned against the court measure that imposed a fine to those who used VPN to access the X (former Twitter) when the platform was suspended.
The election did not have a campaign as in the states. One of the few mentions of the reelected president’s social networks is a publication saying that he has the massive support of federal counselors and lawmakers of law.
In addition to reelection, what marks the claim is the fact that, unlike other years, where the five directors composing the plate were each in a region of the country, this time there are two representatives of the Northeast and none in the southern region .
With the president, they make up the Felipe Sarmento Cordeiro plate (vice), Roseline Rabelo de Jesus Morais (secretary-general), Christina Cordeiro dos Santos (Assistant Secretary-General) and Délio Fortes Lins and Silva Junior (Treasury Director).
From the institutional point of view, in turn, in addition to the most discreet and acting profile behind the scenes, Simonetti is described as skilled in negotiations and meeting the claims of state OABs. One of the flags raised by him is the internalization of the OAB.
He competed with a single plate, as it has been for over a decade. A. Since then, the counselors only ratify the candidate’s name.
This is part of rules that make it difficult for challengers to enter. To apply for the election, the candidacy needs the support of at least six state OABs. In addition, except the presidential candidate, all of the plate must be elected counselors in their states.
While the one is by direct vote of law in complete plates, the national is indirect, and in a format that gives the same weight to all states.
Critics to the way the system has been defending changes in the entity’s electoral system in recent years, such as the approval of direct elections, which would depend on approval of the.
A portion of law also criticizes the discretion of the National Board for the distribution of resources to states, without rules that give security and predictability.
