The Minister of (Supreme Federal Court) said on Friday (22) that autocracies use the “false motto” of the self-restarting of sectors such as press and judiciary.
The speech took place at the Lide Business Forum, in Rio de Janeiro, hours after the STF minister said, at the same event, that the.
Moraes did not directly cite his colleague, but said that “only in autocracies the autocrat may want to exercise their freedom without limits and not be held responsible.”
“And why this? In these autocracies, under the false motto that there must be an understanding of certain sectors, such as press and judiciary, one ended up with freedom of the press and thousands of judges have been removed, under the false motto that they need to self-confirm. This is a dictator thing,” Moraes said.
The minister’s speech also had other apparent counterpoints to the previous speech of the STF colleague. After Mendonça claims that “the good judge must be recognized for respect, not for fear,” Moraes said “respect is for independence.”
“The cowardly vassal judiciary, who wants to make an agreement so that the country momentarily ceases to be troubled is not an independent judiciary,” Moraes said.
The STF Minister, Pivot of Sanctions of the President of, and of attacks by the former president () and his family, gave speech remembering moments of attempted to break democracy in the country.
According to him, Brazil, since redemocratization, knew how to “react to turmoil”. Moraes did not make direct mentions to Bolsonaro, or the magnitsky law, which he was targeted, who sanctions human rights violators in the US.
“In a country that unfortunately has a history of coup, we have 37 years of Democratic Rule of Law and Institutional Stability. It does not mean tranquility, or as in Aeronautics it is said, brigadeiro sky. But we have important mechanisms, instruments necessary to ensure normality.”
According to Sheet Published, the minister had a US flag credit card blocked due to the magnitsky law. In return, the financial institution of which he is a client offered Moraes a Card of the Brazilian Flag Elo.
