The minister and the former governor of Minas Gerais have been in a direct clash since Monday (20), when the pre-candidate shared a satire about the magistrate
The minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Gilmar Mendes and the former governor of Minas Gerais Romeu Zema (Novo) are in conflict since Zema published a satire video on March 1which portrays the magistrate asking Minister Dias Toffoli to exchange favors amid the Banco Master scandal.
After Zema’s posts, Gilmar Mendes sent a representation to minister Alexandre de Moraes on Monday (20) calling for an investigation of the pre-candidate for President.
In the representation, Gilmar pointed out suspected signs of crime in a publication made by Zema, who left the government of Minas Gerais in March to be a pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic.
Moraes asked for a statement from the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) before deciding whether to include Zema in the research.
The video published by Zema portrayed a conversation between two dolls, characterized by puppet designs, which would represent Dias Toffoli and Gilmar Mendes. In the video, Toffoli calls Gilmar and asks him to cancel his company’s breaches of confidentialityapproved by the Senate’s Organized Crime CPI.
Gilmar Mendes in Zema’s satirical video
Also on Monday, opposition parliamentarians in the Chamber of Deputiesby minister Gilmar Mendes. The initiative is led by federal deputy Gilberto Silva (PL-PA) after the magistrate requested the former governor’s inclusion in the fake news investigation.
Zema compares ministers to the Portuguese crown
One day after sending Gilmar Mendes’ representation, on the day of the Inconfidência Mineira, Zema made another publication criticizing the STF. The former governor compared the ministers and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) to the Portuguese crown.
“Do you think we are truly free? I don’t think so. In place of the Portuguese Crown, the untouchables of Brasília sat. The sold-out politicians, the thieving businessmen and the judges who think they are above good and evil”, it says in an excerpt of the publication.
The representation that alludes to the Inconfidência Mineira brings images of artificial intelligence with the faces of ministers Gilmar Mendes and Alexandre de Moraes, as well as president Lula and banker Daniel Vorcaro.
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On the same day, Zema also shared a sketch video from the channel “Porta dos Fundos”, from 2018, on the social network “As I said, if you want to arrest everyone who criticizes the untouchables, you can buy more pens and they will need to arrest the whole of Brazil”, wrote Zema when sharing the publication.
2018 video from . As I said, if you want to arrest everyone who criticizes the untouchables, you can buy more pens and they will need to arrest the whole of Brazil.
— Romeu Zema (@RomeuZema)
Zema has published a series of videos daily, criticizing the STF and emphasizing the actions of minister Gilmar Mendes. On Monday he made a post saying he was being persecuted for sharing satire. “The STF is persecuting me because of a satire, an irony against the ‘Untouchables’”, he said.
Now the talk is serious. Until the end, this is one of the most important videos I’ve ever made.
— Romeu Zema (@RomeuZema)
Gilmar calls Zema a ‘homosexual doll’
The minister on Thursday (23) by suggest that “homosexual” is an offense. The demonstration took place on social media after the magistrate questioned, in an interview with the Metrópoles portal, whether it would not be offensive to portray the former governor of Minas Gerais and pre-candidate for the Presidency Romeu Zema (Novo) as a “homosexual doll”.
In the publication, Gilmar said that he has no “afraid to recognize the error”, but he considered that there is “an industry of defamation and slanderous accusations against the Supreme Court”.
In the interview with the Metrópoles portal, the minister was criticizing a publication by Zema about the series “Os Intocáveis”, when he asked if it would be offensive to make dolls of the former governor of MG as homosexual.
“If we start making jokes about serious things, about institutions, imagine that we start making dolls of Zema as a homosexual. Isn’t that offensive? Is it right to joke about that?”, said Gilmar Mendes.
Zema reacted to Gilmar’s speech and, also on social media, stated that the STF minister showed “all his prejudice towards Brazil”.
Unbelievable. Gilmar Mendes equates our satire of the untouchables with a possible satire of the Supreme Court representing me as a homosexual and a thief.
I don’t even have words to describe what’s happening. This guy increasingly goes beyond limits. It behaves like a…
— Romeu Zema (@RomeuZema)
