Lawyer Vitor Marques and businessman and former federal deputy Alexis Fonteyne discussed, this Friday (6), in The Great Debate (Monday to Friday, at 11pm), if the speech by Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court), about the Code of Ethics shows division in the Court.
Moraes who accuse the Court of allowing ministers to judge cases with the participation of relatives as lawyers.
Vitor understands that the Supreme Court is not going through a split.
“I don’t see that there is a division in the STF at the moment. Recently, Minister Edson Fachin published a note, even defending the STF, of the stance that the STF has taken at this moment, which has been questioned a lot”, he said.
“It seems to me that many of the questions revolve around some degree of bad faith. It seems to me that Brazilian society today is experiencing great social polarization and, every time the STF decides on an issue that has some political connotation, one side of society rises up against the STF”, he continued.
Fonteyne assesses that Moraes’ speech shows a division in the Court.
“The way Moraes spoke was actually quite aggressive, but it is worth remembering that Fachin is trying to save what remains of the Supreme Court’s reputation and reliability, because, in recent times, the Supreme Court has been the center of the spotlight, but it is on the criminal pages”, he said.
“There wouldn’t even be a need to have a Code of Ethics if people had ethics, but what we have today is a political composition of the STF, of people who are at the service of the Executive, that’s what is happening. It’s not an unpopular decision by the Supreme Court, they are shameful actions, facts that would serve to overthrow a Supreme Court minister in any serious country in the world”, he continued.
