The Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, sent on Thursday (29) to the Federal Supreme Court an opinion in favor of suspending the law that prohibits racial quotas in state universities in Santa Catarina.
Approved in December and sanctioned on Wednesday (21), the state quota law prohibits the reservation of places in state universities, both for student admission and for hiring teachers, based on race criteria. Furthermore, the text establishes punishments for institutions that do not respect the prohibition, including the nullity of entrance exams and competitions, in addition to fines of up to R$100,000 per notice, along with the cut in funding and the opening of disciplinary proceedings against the responsible decision-makers.
With the new legislation, only policies for reserving places for students based on socioeconomic criteria, public education and, also for teachers, those intended for people with disabilities are authorized.
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The law has already been provisionally suspended since Tuesday (27), following a decision by the Court of Justice of Santa Catarina, which accepted PSOL’s complaint to the state court alleging the nullity of the text for violating the Constitution.
In the opinion, Gonet highlighted that the quota policy has already been validated in several Supreme Court judgments and that the “urgency of the precautionary measure is evidenced by the possibility of applying the rule to selection processes in progress or that will be opened at the beginning of the academic year”.
Despite the , the Attorney General highlighted that the Supreme Court’s decision is also necessary “given that, if there is coexistence of constitutional jurisdictions, the state action must be suspended until the final judgment by the STF”.
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In the Supreme Court, the law was already in partnership with more than 250 party acronyms and civil society organizations. The request is based on the same principle as the one headed at state level, alleging that the law sanctioned by Jorginho Mello (PL) violates the constitutional duty to combat structural racism and invades the Union’s competence when legislating on racial quotas, since affirmative action policies are in the national interest.
