The president of the Supreme Court (STF), Minister Edson Fachin, said the court has maintained the tradition of not bending “authoritarian interests” and criticized countries that try to interfere with the economy of other nations.
“The supreme of contemporary honors the best tradition of that Federal Supreme Court that has not been verified to the authoritarian interests on duty, did not have the contingent, but remained faithful to what is structural,” Fachin said in an interview with the STF podcast in celebration of the 37th anniversary of the promulgation of the Constitution last Sunday (5).
“Because a constitutional judge, he is, first and foremost, faithful to the rule of law, the rule of law in a republic and a democracy. Therefore, he does not subscribe to authoritarianism, he does not subscribe to what he undermines democratic experience,” the minister continued.
Amid the sanctions applied by the United States to Brazil, Fachin also pointed out that those who try to interfere with the functioning of the judiciary of a country or the economy of this provokes a “attack on sovereignty.”
“No country, with any argument, is legitimized to hurt the self -determination of another country. And this self -determination can be in the economic area, it can be in its political dimension, it can be an expression of its institutionality,” he said.
“Therefore, when a country is in the legal order of others, wanting to interfere with the functioning of this country’s judiciary, or wanting to provoke economic consequences that derive from a hegemonic conception of the preponderance that a strong economy wants to realize a slightly younger economy, this is undoubtedly an attack on sovereignty,” added the president of the Supreme.
Tariff
On August 6, the US applied a 50% rate to Brazilian products and justified that one of the reasons for the surcharge was the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in the STF. In addition, the US government has also imposed individual sanctions and relatives of the court ministers.
Following a nod of Donald Trump, president of the United States, at the UN General Assembly (United Nations), on September 23, to accept the conversation with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT), about the rates imposed on Brazilian products,
The conversation occurs after months of attempted negotiation by Lula’s government and Trump’s speech of the UN, which mentioned one between him and the petista when they met in the assembly.
