The President () evaluates to appoint a woman for the vacancy in the (Superior Military Court) that opens with the minister’s retirement in April. in over 200 years of history.
Two names are the main ones in the nomination race: the lawyers and, who is also a substitute minister of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court).
Veronica Sterman, 40, was a lawyer for the PT president, Deputy (PR), and the former minister in cases of. She also defended the vice-president (PSB) in lawsuit in the São Paulo Electoral Court of illegal donations for the political campaign.
With support from Gleisi and Alckmin, Sterman was quoted for a vacancy in the TRF-3 (Federal Regional Court) last year. His name, strong in the dispute, was passed after appeals by the Labor Minister, and unionists in favor of lawyer Marcos Moreira de Carvalho.
According to reports, the option for Carvalho, in August 2024, even contradicted the first lady Rosângela Lula da Silva, A, friendly to the choice of a woman for the position.
But at the time, they weighed the arguments of Marinho and the president of the ABC Metalworkers Union, Moisés Selerges Júnior, in favor of the appointment of a historical ally. Moreira was Secretary of Legal Affairs of the City of São Bernardo do Campo from 2009 to 2016, in Marine Management.
Today, the president’s allies bet on Sterman’s nomination as a form of repair. For another wing, however, this should not be the selection criterion.
In this context, the name of Edilene Lobo, 55, a. She was chosen by Lula for the position in 2023, in a reserved vacancy for law, and has a mandate until August this year.
She has a history of consultancies provided to the PT and, about 20 years ago, has been advocating for the party and petist parliamentarians.
Edilene filed a lawsuit in the (Supreme Court) on behalf of the Workers Party for the first time in 2005. This was a PT process in Minas Gerais against then-deputy Roberto Jefferson (PTB-RJ) on accusations made by the politician in the post office CPI. The action was eventually denied by the Supreme.
Three STM ministers heard by Sheet They reacted with strangeness to the possible indication of petistas attorneys to the Military Court. One of them said he already sees progressive advances in the court and assessed that the genre of the prices should not be considered for the choice.
Because of the appeal to the nomination of a woman to the STM, two men supported by government ministers and the Supreme Court lost strength behind the scenes for the nomination.
José Levi Mello do Amaral Júnior, who was Minister of (Attorney General of the Union) at the beginning of the Bolsonaro government, was named for a vacancy in STM during the transition from government.
One of his godparents was STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes. He was consulted on the nomination and supported the plan, according to the report of two people alongside the articulation.
Levi was TSE secretary general during Moraes management. He attended high school at the Porto Alegre Military College, from 1991 to 1993, but decided to pursue a career in the legal and social sciences. It has a good relationship with general officers.
Minister José Mucio (Defense), in turn, defends the nomination of the chief of institutional relations of the portfolio, Rafaelo Apritta.
Apritta has been a career union lawyer since 2001. He has passed through the Civil House and the Ministry of Economy before assuming the function in defense. It is described by close people as discreet, with good traffic between military, politicians and magistrates.
In 2015, he served in defense of former President Dilma Rousseff during the, chosen by the Attorney General of the Union to represent the Government in the Federal Court of Auditors).
The STM consists of 15 ministers, with vacancies divided between civilians (five vacancies) and Army military (four), Navy (three) and Aeronautics (three).
The place for the civil chair will be opened in April 2025, with the retirement José Coêlho Ferreira, about to turn 75. He was nominated for office in 2001 by former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Lula has the mission to indicate a new STM minister amid the change of profile of the Court, with the election of Minister Maria Elizabeth to the presidency. Progressive and only woman in history joining the court – Indicated by the petista himself in 2007 – she was one of the defenders of the indication of more women for the higher courts.
