The president of the PT, Edinho Silva, said this Sunday (15) that he is against “pre-trial” and “public lynching”, referring to the departure of the minister from the (Supreme Federal Court) of the .
Toffoli spent weeks under pressure because of the measures he took in conducting the process and, mainly, because of .
The minister left the report last Thursday (12), after the PF (Federal Police) delivered a report to the Supreme Court which included conversations in which Daniel Vorcaro, owner of Master, mentioned.
“All allegations need to be investigated, for the good of institutions and the credibility of the Brazilian financial system. But we cannot be in favor of pre-trial and public lynching of anyone. We have already seen this practice in Lava Jato, it only weakened democracy”, said the PT president.
The reference to Lava Jato is common in speeches by PT members in the context of investigations. The operation led today’s president Luiz Inácio da Silva (PT) to -later, Lula obtained one.
“Everyone has the right to the principles of contradiction and broad defense, the opposite of this has a name: it is a regime of exception, authoritarianism. The PT will not join in with any authoritarian opportunism”, declared Edinho.
The PT leader said that Brazil’s model of representative democracy is “eaten” and defended a reform in the Judiciary. “But this need for change cannot be confused with any organized fascist movement that seeks to weaken institutions that support the democratic regime,” he declared.
“We have to investigate all the complaints, but this attack on STF ministers, without the right to defense, weakens the Judiciary, feeds anti-system sentiment, and paves the way for authoritarianism”, stated Edinho.
The PT president’s speeches have points in common with analyzes that members of the government leadership carried out behind the scenes over the last few weeks.
Lula’s allies expressed concern about the deterioration of the Supreme Court’s public image and feared institutional weakening caused by the Banco Master scandal. This one too.
Furthermore, there was a fear, among Lula’s allies, that the deterioration of the Supreme Court’s image would leave the court more susceptible to attacks from Bolsonarist political groups. These sectors want to promote the impeachment of court ministers, in a movement that gained strength after the STF attacked the former president (PL) for an attempted coup.
The Lula government received support in the Supreme Court throughout the current term, but this relationship may have been strained. As shown by Sheet.
The magistrates sent the assessment to Palácio do Planalto that when preparing the report that cites Toffoli and that PT members are trying to exploit the Master case politically.
The government leadership instructed its ministers to avoid statements with a political content on the topic. The intention is to try to move away from the case and reduce the political temperature.
Lula himself, in public speeches, had been using the Master case as a way of building an anti-system image for his government. “It is the first time in the history of Brazil that we are pursuing corruption tycoons”, said the President of the Republic on Monday (9).
Who, after Toffoli’s departure, was the minister. and with a more discreet profile, in the assessment of government officials and sectors of the STF itself.
The report on the Master case, however, would be the minister’s first acid test since , as it is a rumored investigation whose scope in the political world is still unclear. This could make the magistrate the target of pressure, and the way he will conduct the case will only be possible to assess during the process, say court observers.
With the Master case, the magistrate began to be appointed as a new protagonist of the court, as he also held command of the (National Social Security Institute).
