The President (PT) signed the renewal of the position of Attorney General for another two years, on the eve of the judgment of the former president () by the (Supreme Court).
Gonet’s term would end in December, and next week’s trial may condemn Bolsonaro for suspected coup after the defeat to Lula in the 2022 elections.
The new appointment will have to go through the Senate endorsement, with Sabbath at the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission) and then vote in the Plenary, having at least 41 votes.
In a statement, Gonet stated that he thanks the president for the appointment. “Excited and comforted by this demonstration of renewed confidence, I also renew my purpose of commitment and dedication to the cause of justice, the prosecutor and the country,” he said.
Lula assistants point out that anticipation gives more strength and legitimacy to the PGR at a time of high political-institutional pressure, and helps to avoid the interpretation that the president awaits acting in the trial to decide on re-rotation.
In addition, according to a Lula assistant, the decision to anticipate the reappointment was to avoid disputes that normally occur within the Federal Prosecutor’s Office to form a triple list of ANPR (National Association of Prosecutors), with names chosen internally.
Although it is a custom of the category, there is no provision in the law that the President of the Republic should follow this list. In 2023, when he first indicated Gonet. Before, Jair Bolsonaro did the same to and, therefore,
The president’s early decision must make there a triple list this year. In the Association of Prosecutors, the internal evaluation is that the idea of the list is to give three names to the agent, and that makes no sense to send a relationship after the choice, since the intention is not to cause embarrassment.
The idea is that Lula’s decision continuity and tranquility, without startles, to Gonet’s performance as PGR.
Aras became known for having a frictional relationship with a significant portion of members of the Public Prosecution Service, as well as proximity to Bolsonaro allies who in relation to the attacks that the then president made to the institutions.
Gonet was part of the Aras Management summit between 2021 and 2023, as Deputy Attorney General, acting on the TSE (Superior Electoral Court).
But, ahead of, Gonet changed the direction of his predecessor. He reorganized internal forces and aligned with Minister Alexandre de Moraes and also with.
The prosecutor was responsible, among other things, by. The charges include crimes whose maximum penalties, added, can reach 43 years in prison – to count the aggravants.
Gonet, 64, has one of good relations with the political world, but had a strong performance in its early years at the head of the Attorney General’s Office against suspicions of irregularities in the use of parliamentary amendments.
He denounced, in April this year, the then Minister of Communications Juscelino Filho (Brazil-MA Union) in the inquiry in which he had been indicted by the under. He .
Born in Rio de Janeiro and member of the Attorney’s Office since 1987, Gonet has been a doctorate from UnB (University of Brasilia).
Behind the scenes of the legal world, it is seen as someone open to dialogue and with a close relationship with the Supreme Minister, of whom he was a partner in a higher education institution.
The magistrate, alongside the minister, was the main guarantor of his choice for the federal leadership in his first term.
Practicing Catholic, Gonet had his most conservative positions more clearly exposed from 2009, when he wrote an article criticizing the right to. The text was published when the possibility of using embryos for scientific research was under discussion, decided by the STF the previous year.
He defends the thesis that human life has existed since its conception and says that the state must act “firmly and effectively” against the interruption of pregnancy. In addition, it makes mentions of people like, who is one of the best known conservative jurists in the country.
In 2019, the current Attorney General received praise from the deputy (PL-DF), allied of Bolsonaro. “It is conservative root, Christian, its performance in the STF in the processes of Lava Jato was impeccable,” said the parliamentarian.
In the complaint against Bolsonaro, in February this year, Gonet accused the former president of committing crimes of attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law and coup d’état, damage qualified by violence and serious threat against heritage of the Union, deterioration of overturned assets and participation in a criminal organization.
The prosecution pointed out the existence of a criminal organization that “had leaders the President of the Republic himself and his candidate for vice president, General Braga Neto.”
“Both accepted, encouraged, and performed acts typified in the criminal legislation of attack against the legal good of existence and independence of powers and the rule of democratic law.”
