The minister reaches his last months in the presidency of the (Supreme Federal Court) and the (National Council of Justice) with a more privileged judiciary than at the time he assumed the positions, and with limited public transparency.
Amid organs in this regard, Barroso comes from the beginning, in interviews and lectures, a series of demonstrations contrary to criticism of justice spending.
On two occasions in February this year said the criticisms are and that there is the judiciary.
Barroso will leave the presidency of the Supreme in the second half of this year and may stay in court until 2033, the year he would retire compulsorily, but has signaled the possibility of leaving the court before. Instead in command of the court will assume the minister.
Since the first session led by Barroso at the head of the CNJ in October 2023, there has been questions about benefits granted to magistrates. At the time, members of the Council approved a resolution that across the country.
The standard ensured the equalization of rights and duties of judges and members of the. According to the measure, only in controversial situations does the judiciary define what is valid and what is not.
Less than a month later, several courts approved benefits from this resolution.
The most important of these is compensatory license. It provides for judges to accumulate administrative functions or other “extraordinary procedural” activities right to one “compensatory license” of one day every three of work, limiting itself to ten days a month.
Judges who do not wish to take these clearances receive for them. The Court usually pays these amounts through compensation, without incidence of income tax.
In a statement, the Supreme Court states that the equalization was already provided for in the Constitution and that there was another rule prior to Barroso’s management in the CNJ on the subject, only repeated.
“It is important to emphasize that such benefits of the Public Prosecution Service were never questioned by parties legitimized in the Supreme Court, to find constitutionality,” says the statement-parts that could ask this question are, for example, political parties, (Attorney General of the Republic) and the OAB.
“The compensatory license, for example, besides the MP [Ministério Público]is being paid by organs like STJ [Superior Tribunal de Justiça]TST [Tribunal Superior do Trabalho]TCU [Tribunal de Contas da União]STM [Superior Tribunal Militar] and Defender, “says the note.” The STF ministers, however, do not receive this benefit. In addition, the CNJ follows specific cases of eventual abuse in granting benefits. The president of the Supreme Court and the CNJ absolutely does not agree with abuse. “
A March decision of this year’s CNJ Corregedor, Mauro Campbell Marques, is seen by experts like one.
He determined that the additional paid to magistrates must have a maximum limit, established by it at R $ 46,300, the ceiling of the civil service.
There were measures to increase the Supreme. From February 2024, each auxiliary judge convened by the Supreme Court has been entitled to up to six daily per month, or R $ 10,000 a month, an increase of R $ 4,000 compared to the previous amount previously.
This year, the funds were reviewed and were considered compensation in a resolution of the Court.
Transparency has been another controversy in recent years. It was during Barroso’s management that ministers were under pressure due to lack of information on events for events abroad, which did not disclose expenses such as costing and period outside Brazil.
Last year, the minister spent $ 99.6 thousand of public resources on international daily for a security guard who accompanied him on trips to London and Madrid.
The amount was paid in April to a server responsible for his security. But the STF omitted information about the trips made by the minister and refused to confirm that he spent 25 days abroad, as indicated by payments to the server who accompanied him.
Another theme in which transparency is reduced is the one for the trips of the court ministers. Under the security argument, the names of passengers of these flights are not disclosed, and part of the list is kept confidential for five years.
Previously, only the president of the Supreme had an official plane at his disposal. The other court ministers used to hitchhike on flights requested by other authorities, such as ministers of state.
As Sheet It showed the STF about trips of ministers at FAB aircraft after two requests made by the report.
In a statement, the court says that “in relation to the authorization of security spending, it is important to remember that all authorities are protected in their work or personal times. The risk is not reduced at the personal moment. On the contrary, family members also take more risk.”
“If a minister is attacked, whether on the way to work or in a movie session, the institutional consequence is the same,” the statement says.
“For some time now, unfortunately, the security of the ministers had to be reinforced, and the identity of security agents had to be preserved, due to the wave of hatred that has settled in the country and reaches the STF more than other institutions.”
“On FAB flights, requests follow Decree 10.267/2020 and take into account security technical analyzes,” says the Supreme.
