Former President states that judiciary and legislature “go beyond their attributions” and cites the need a political reform
Former President of the Republic José Sarney said that Brazil is going through a moment of “Uncoordination between powers”According to him, political integration“was very shakenAnd there must be a reform.
“The judicialization of politics, in a way, gave the judiciary a certain shake of functions. Often the judiciary goes beyond its attributions and Congress is also extrapolating, which shows a uncoordination between the powers”, He said in an interview with the newspaper published this Wednesday (16.abr.2025).
Sarney said that Congress “It has always been the heart of democracy“, but “has lost a lot of weight” e “substance”In recent years. According to the former president, the legislature is fragmented, being composed“by parties where adhesions are more for personal interests than for any other motivation”.
This reality makes it “A very big wear“Not legislative.”Without strong political party, there is also no strong democracy. Good or bad, it is within the parties that form leaders and we have recent political parties, formed in coalition presidentialism”He said.
“Congress no longer works as an institution to defend its programs, the programs of political parties. And the adhesion to these parties was no longer done on a basis of ideology, nor the party formation of major segments of society, nor in government programs“, These.
That “weakness of parties and Congress”Made the judiciary to suffer a“shake”Of functions and there was“politicization of justice and the judicialization of politics ”.
Sarney stated: “We have to make a political reform. I may not even be alive, but I believe it will come and that it comes in a quiet way and not in a traumatic way. In a normal system, of strong parties, there would be no”.
The former president said it was necessary to leave the current political system.
“Instead of coalition presidentialism, we must make a relieved parliamentarism, as is that of France and as is that of Portugal, in which the Prime Minister cannot be dismissed at any time ”these.
According to Sarney, it is also necessary to be done “the vote reform ”, to “End this proportional vote and adopt the German system”where there is the combination of district voting, where the candidates are voted in each district, and proportional, in which voters vote for the parties.
January 8
Sarney talked about January 8, where the headquarters of the three powers were invaded. He said that “There was a demonstration of dissatisfaction”With the president’s election (PT) “departing from within the government of those who had lost”The claim.
“But I don’t know the process. This is being tried by justice, so that I have no data to say, but those published in the newspapers, that we really take a risk [de haver um golpe de Estado]. But I personally know the Armed Forces, I know the feeling they came to have after my government, to return to the barracks and to abandon militarism, which is the aggregation of political power to military power”He said.
According to the former president, the Armed Forces “would never have a manifestation”Against the institutions.
“I am convinced that anyone who wants to play with the Armed Forces to make any political adventure can know that they will not count on them. They will be maintained of democracy and the constitutional order“, These.
