Senator Weverton Rocha (PDT-MA), rapporteur for the appointment of the Federal Supreme Court, released, this Tuesday (14), a report in favor of the approval of the current attorney general of the Union for the post.
The CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission) scheduled the reading of the report for this Wednesday (15). Now the Messiah hearing, followed by the vote in the Senate plenary.
Messias’ nomination was forwarded by the president () to the Senate on the 1st.
To be approved, Messias needs at least 41 votes in favor among 81 senators, in a secret vote. Allies of the AGU claim that he has the support of 48 senators.
Weverton’s seven-page report provides details about Messias’ CV, who was a Central Bank attorney, Finance attorney, consultant in ministries and special advisor in the Senate, before taking over as head of the AGU in the Lula 3 government.
The rapporteur highlights Messiah’s medals and honors, given to him by evangelicals and the military, which may please the right-wing bench in the Senate. Among them is the Diploma of the Order of Christian Merit Medal of the Evangelical Parliamentary Front and the Orders of Naval and Aeronautical Merit.
A trusted name for Lula and the PT, Messias worked in the Civil House of the Presidency from 2014 to 2016, in the government (PT), in a passage also mentioned briefly in the report.
At the time, Messiah remained. It was mentioned by Dilma in a conversation with her ten years ago. The then president tried to appoint Lula as minister amid the impeachment crisis.
Weverton also highlights that Messias presented a declaration that meets the prohibition of nepotism, that is, “that he has no relatives who carry out or have carried out public or private activities, linked to his professional activity”. And another statement regarding his “participation as partner, owner or manager” of companies.
The association with companies and the actions of relatives are at the heart of the STF ministers’ weariness in relation to . THE Sheet revealed, for example, that the office of Viviane Barci’s wife, as family companies, funds the bank.
Weverton says that, as the Union’s attorney general, Messias had a conciliatory profile and dialogue with different sectors. “Under his leadership, the AGU positioned conciliation as a State policy, prioritizing legal security through judicial and extrajudicial agreements”, says the report.
The text mentions the New Rio Doce Agreement, on the recovery from the collapse of the Mariana dam (MG) in 2015, and the savings in paying court orders.
