Author of Dilma’s impeachment request that he evaluates that the former president’s judgment is a way of “healing” democracy
Miguel Reale Jr., former Minister of Justice and one of the authors of the impeachment request against (PT), spoke about the judgment of the former president (PL) in an interview with the newspaper S. Sheet Paulo(31.ago.2025).
For Reale Jr., the judgment at the Supreme Court (STF) of core 1 of the attempted coup d’état that tried to prevent the inauguration of the President (PT), (2.Set), “It is a very important moment of reaffirmation of Brazilian democracy ”. According to him, amnestying the former president would be a “betrayal”.
“It was a shock to the country these measures that flowed into. It is a wound that was in Brazilian democracy, and it needs to be healed. Healing is done through criminal proceedings, in which those responsible are judged with full right of defense, contradictory, as it is being.”he declared.
The retired lawyer and professor of criminal law at USP (University of São Paulo) said that the amnesty would be a “betrayal of democracy ”. This is because, according to him, none of the possibilities that would allow forgiveness would be present.
“Amnesty defenders do not want pacification, they want impunity. With pacification, there would be no violation of Brazilian sovereignty and the search for constraints to the Brazilian economy. It is not a trade war, it is an economic war, to press STF decisions, to press internal political decisions in Brazil.declared to Sheet.
Questioned about STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes, Reale Jr. said his style is “a little [como o do] Prosecutor, where he is from, but there is no incompetence of him or impediment ” for the conduct of the process. “Because otherwise everyone would be prevented. What was wounded and injured there was not a minister, was the STF”these.
In 2022, Reale Jr.. At the time, Gleisi Hoffmann, then PT president, said that “several people”Involved in Dilma’s impeachment evaluated that the process was a mistake.
“She didn’t understand anything. It had nothing to do with regret, with impeachment. I was saying I voted for Lula because we had to unite against the harm of Bolsonaro. It was a process of salvation in the disaster country that was Bolsonaro. And the risk that was a 2nd round. Unfortunately, the 2nd round came and was a suffocation”Said the lawyer.
He stated that he had not changed his mind about impeachment: “The pedaling led the country to the greatest recession in its history. If there had been impeachment, but Dilma’s continuity, the country had sunk”.
