The president of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Edson Fachin, stated that “democracy is not neutral in the face of those who seek to destroy it”. He spoke at the opening of the judicial year at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IDH), in São José, Costa Rica. The minister also said that although democracy has not fulfilled its promises, such as equality, it is in its absence that “authoritarian populisms are nurtured to undermine it from within”.
Without mentioning the US intervention in Venezuela at the beginning of this year, Fachin said that the current moment requires “the defense of civilization and civilizing pacts against the barbarism that wants to settle across the continent, and also in countries in continental Europe”.
“Despite these uncertainties, I believe there is hope yet to be announced”, highlighted Fachin. “History, which does not end, is a human work, we are agents of the social and political process. Nothing is destined, everything is in dispute, and in this field of dispute of meanings, if democracy does not offer us certainty, it still and always offers us possibilities”, he added.
Opportunity with security!
The ceremony was attended by the president of the Chamber, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), the minister of the Supreme Court Gilmar Mendes, the minister of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations (SRI), Gleisi Hoffmann, the attorney general of the Union Jorge Messias, the president of the Superior Military Court (STM), Maria Elizabeth Rocha, and the national inspector of Justice, Mauro Campbell Marques.
When greeting Gilmar, Fachin praised his colleague, saying that he has been, alongside him, the minister who most often uses the IHR Court’s rulings as grounds for his votes in the Supreme Court.
