The (Supreme Federal Court) defined on Wednesday (28) two triplices for the vacancies of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) occupied by lawyers. The names are sent to President Lula (PT), to whom the final choice will be responsible.
The first relationship has the names of Floriano de Azevedo Marques and André Ramos Tavares, currently ministers of the Electoral Court, and former Union General José Levi Mello do Amaral.
The second list has Estela Aranha, former Secretary of Digital Rights of the Ministry of Justice, Vera Lúcia Araújo, currently a substitute minister of the Court, and Cristina Maria Gama Neves da Silva, judge of the Federal District Regional Electoral Court.
The minister, president of the TSE, asked the word and stated that the definition of an exclusively female list aims to ensure the indication of a new minister to the court.
The mandates of Floriano and Ramos Tavares end on May 30. Usually, ministers who hold the position for a biennium are reappointed for another period. In this case, however, this will not happen with at least one of the two, as both are on the same triple list.
The names were defined at the beginning of this Wednesday’s STF plenary session. The plenary also elected Gilmar Mendes, from the STF, to another term in the electoral court, where he currently occupies a place of substitute minister.
“André Ramos Tavares and Floriano Azevedo are great jurists, some lawyers and have a huge contribution to. And so it would be the greatest taste that they were in different lists,” said Cármen. But he pondered, “it would be a contrast and even a discourte that the TSE itself had no woman.”
“If we didn’t have the opportunity to have a list of women, in the next election we would have the seven positions with seven men, and six Paulistas. As much as they worship Sao Paulo and the Paulistas, one must have to have some diversity,” he said.
She also cited a resolution unanimously approved on March 11 for the promotion of women to the positions of magistrates and magistrates of the TRE (Regional Electoral Courts) in the vacancies of the law.
According to the minister, it will take at least a decade and a half until another woman presides the TSE. Thus, the names presented make a movement to give them more space.
Today, in addition to Carmen, the Minister of the STJ (Superior Court of Justice) Isabel Gallotti also integrates the TSE. Her first biennium as an effective minister ends in November.
Already the president leaves the court on August 25, 2026, just before the general elections next year, when it will be succeeded by.
