Most Brazilians, 83% of the second population, are contrary to the existence of supersalaries in the civil service.
Although the Federal Constitution of 1988 determines that no one can receive compensation above a minister of (Supreme Court) – currently R $ 46.3 thousand – the same study revealed that, without any serious control, monthly payments to 93% of magistrates and 91.5% of prosecutors and prosecutors go beyond this ceiling.
In some municipalities, the salary of a local judge has, therefore, an imaginary salary ceiling.
Instead of acting incisively to curb the practice, the National Council of Justice (CNJ) and the National Council of the Public Prosecution Service (CNMP) seem to walk in the opposite direction. The load of inspection and collection falls once again on the shoulders of citizens. However, this type of work, fundamental to the exercise of citizenship, may have the days numbered.
Ignoring civil society alerts, in 2023 the prosecutor if that were not enough, the exclusion of these data after five years. The “argument” was again the supposed need for respect –
Unsurprisingly, magistrates ‘associations now want to repeat the movement and lobby so that the CNJ authorizes the requirement to identify the citizen-in full name, CPF, e-mail and-as a condition for accessing judges’ compensation information. Application 0008267-82.2023.2.00.0000 is under the rapporteur of the National Corregidor of Justice, Mauro Campbell Marques.
In our opinion, the resolution would pave the way for the same type of harassment and coercion that occurred when the Federal Senate required citizens’ identity to access the salaries of its servers.
In 2013, when one of the staff members knowing played a transparency project about these spending, he received dozens of threatening messages. To illustrate, below is one of these emails:
No one disagrees with the need to protect the safety of magistrates or to value the importance of a strong and independent judiciary.
However, it is fallacious and foolhardy to believe that this is built by opacity and escape from accountability, so vital in any public career – specially in the judiciary.
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