Senator Sergio Moro’s affiliation with the PL to run for the government of Paraná caused the departure of federal deputy and then state president of the party Fernando Giacobo. The parliamentarian argues that he left the party, after 24 years, for being “coherent”, given the criticism made by Moro against former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) when he left the Ministry of Justice in 2020.
— I’m coherent. I can’t stand on the platform of a man who left office with the speech that Bolsonaro is corrupt. If Valdemar (Costa Neto) and the other leaders forget things easily, I can’t stand by their side — argues Giacobo.
The deputy also states that Moro’s affiliation fails to comply with an agreement signed by the PL and endorsed by Bolsonaro with governor Ratinho Junior (PSD). While the PL would support the succession candidate endorsed by Ratinho, the governor would have Felipe Barros (PL) as a name for the Senate on his ticket.
Giacobo is a pre-candidate for re-election in the Chamber and has no defined party. Barros announced that he will assume the presidency of the PL by decision of Valdemar, national president of the party.
Moro joined the PL on Tuesday, in Brasília, during an event attended by Valdemar, and presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, who participated in the articulation. Moro’s ticket in Paraná should have as candidates for the Senate the former deputy and former coordinator of the Lava-Jato task force Deltan Dallagnol e Barros.
The union of the two Lava-Jato exponents took place in an auditorium across the street from Posto da Torre, where the operation began. In March 2014, exactly 12 years ago, Federal Police vehicles carried out warrants at the location.
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In a speech, Moro criticized the Lula government and sought to get closer to the Bolsonarist electorate by remembering that he supported Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 second round. According to him, the current scenario exceeded the negative expectations he had at the time.
— I knew that a shadow would fall over the country, and that shadow was worse than I imagined: disorganized economy, taxes harming the private sector. The robbery is back,” he said.
From leaving the government to calls for rapprochement
Moro left the Bolsonaro government in April 2020 with criticism of the dismissal of the PF director general, Maurício Valeixo, who had been chosen by him for the position and was considered his right-hand man.
Moro, who gained national prominence as a first-instance judge of Lava Jato in Paraná, left the judiciary to take up the position in the Bolsonaro government with high popularity and protagonism — in addition to the promise of autonomy and “superminister” status, in the portfolio that united Justice and Public Security. In his exit speech, the now senator recalled that he had been promised “carte blanche” to act in the fight against organized crime and the embezzlement of public funds.
However, after about a year and a half of government, he accumulated setbacks, defeats and controversies, such as the leak of message exchanges with Lava Jato prosecutors, the loss of control by his ministry over the former Financial Activities Control Council (Coaf), and the dehydration of his anti-crime package.
The former judge went from being a member of the government to the opposition, without leaving aside his anti-PTism. The game changed in 2022, when Moro chose to support Jair Bolsonaro against Lula. He even participated in a debate alongside the then president.
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Since then, the senator has given public signs of an attempt to rapprochement with Bolsonarism. In September last year, for example, Moro cited reasonable doubts” and said he saw “excessive penalties” against Jair Bolsonaro when criticizing the former president’s conviction by the Federal Supreme Court (STF).
The Court set a sentence of 27 years and 3 months for the crimes of attempted coup d’état, criminal organization, violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, qualified damage and deterioration of listed property.
