Minister Cármen Lúcia of the Supreme Court (STF), said on Monday (29) that democracy was recently assaulted in Brazil. The minister’s speech took place in a speech during the inauguration of the new president of the Supreme, Edson Fachin.
“The judges of this house are aware of the specific tribulations of our time, which impose uninterrupted vigilance of the values and principles of democracy, so harshly confirmed in Brazil and recently assaulted again,” said Cármen.
The minister said that democracy was “disregarded and outraged by antidemocrats in undemocratic vilion and abusive against the current rule of law.” The speech happens two weeks after the outcome of the trial of the coup plot in the STF.
“The dictatorship is the mortal sin of politics, the freedoms are extinguished, the institutions are violated, the fear is introduced and the vile price of minds and behaviors are defined, with the citizenship of their ideals of equality and justice for all people.”
The speech was made during the inauguration ceremony of Minister Edson Fachin as new president of the court.
The only woman in the current composition of the Supreme Court, Carmen was chosen by Fachin to make a speech on behalf of the Supreme Ministers. The procedure is a usual in the possessions of court presidents, who choose one of their peers to give voice to the board.
“Having presided over the TSE in a particularly severe framework [em 2022]Minister Fachin did not neglect any of his attentive and careful judge commitments and kept the institutions under his command in the safe line of Brazilian democracy, “Cármen said about Fachin.
Fachin is in the presidency of the Supreme until September 2027. Its vice president will be (Superior Electoral Court) of 2022.
Carmen also praised Moraes. “Minister Alexandre led, in the TSE, the serious moment of the general elections of 2022, ensuring the hygidity of the electoral process, subject that it was this process to very serious injunctions, not omitting or being shaken by illicit and criminal practices committed against the Electoral Justice, against the Electoral Process, finally, against all Brazilian society.”
Fachin’s inauguration is attended by authorities from the three powers, such as Presidents of the Republic, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT), Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB) and Senate, Davi Alcolumbre (Brazil-AP Union), as well as governors, ministers of other superior courts, government ministers and the president of the Brazilian Bar Association, Beto Simonetti.
In addition to Cármen, the Attorney General, Paulo Gonet, and the president of the OAB, Beto Simonetti.
Gonet said Fachin “knows how to stress in the country’s maximum legal order the repulsion due to the indignity of minority persecution, driven by race prejudice, sexual orientation or gender identity.”
Paulo Gonet also stated that Fachin was an excellent defender of religious freedom, the interests of indigenous peoples and minorities who suffer prejudice by race, sexual orientation or gender identity. He also highlighted the conciliatory profile of the magistrate. “In the modes of Minister Edson Fachin, there are no offenses, there is no bellicity, there is no demotion of the standard of urbanity.”
The Attorney General of the Republic also said that Alexandre de Moraes is recognized for his courage in acting as a magistrate. “No one in Brazil, not even the most unassisted opponents, fails to recognize the courage of Minister Alexandre de Moraes in commitment to effectively perform the skills of his position.”
Gonet recalled that the duo Fachin-Alexandre acted in 2022 in the Superior Electoral Court, as president and vice, respectively.
“The harmony developed there by the newly deposited president and vice president is a pledge of tranquility that the country’s manner and technical defense is ensured.”
Gaucho de Rondinha (RS), Edson Fachin studied law at UFPR (Federal University of Paraná), where he is also a full professor of civil law. He also made a career in the state, as a lawyer in the areas of Civil, Agrarian and Real Estate Law and State Attorney.
Fachin was nominated for () by () in April 2015 for the vacancy left by Joaquim Barbosa a year earlier.
It assumes the presidency of (Supreme Federal Court) on Monday (29) indicating as one of the priorities for management around the Court and cooling questions about the court’s performance.
The idea of self -restarting the judiciary has been one in recent months, when the court has been in clashes with the law sectors and (PL) allies in the midst of.
At the age of ten years in June, Fachin used a phrase already known to him: “to law what is law, to politics what is politics.” “We judges and judges, servants and servants cannot act outside the objective legal reason or be seen as a satellite of polarization that today plagues the world.”
Fachin’s discreet style is similar to Rosa Weber’s, who chaired the court for just over a year, between 2022 and 2023. The minister has no habit of talking to journalists, granting few press interviews and often preferred demonstrations in the procedural records.
An example of Fachin’s discretion is the refusal of the offers of legal associations to play a party in honor of his possession on Monday night. Averse to extravagance, he decided to serve only water and coffee at the ceremony.
decided to leave the rapporteur of more than 100 cases linked to when assuming the presidency of. He took over the rapporteur of cases in February 2017, by draw, after the Supreme Lava Jato ,.
The arrival of the main position of the judiciary marks the head of the main investigation that aimed politicians and entrepreneurs. The operation was buried, on the grounds of the existence of.
Fachin began to structure his plans for the presidency a few months ago, organizing team, work dynamics and the list of processes he wants to take with him. The process catalog that Fachin decided to keep under his command shows the minister’s priorities for the new cycle.
The new president will have in his office processes linked to the labor agenda. , which discusses whether there is an employment relationship between drivers and applications.
Approved by 52 votes to 27 by Senate in 2015, Fachin was Dilma’s last name for the STF. In theory, she would have two more nominations, but the approval of the cane PEC in the Congress postponed the retirement of Marco Aurélio Mello and Celso de Mello for five years.
