The defeat by a large margin in the nomination for the STF (Supreme Federal Court) leaves doubts about the Lula government’s ability to react and opens up bleak prospects for the upcoming electoral campaign.
Messiah was a victim of being chosen at the wrong time. As the beyond-courteous Sabatina showed in He is polite, affable and has political aplomb.
sought to establish a relationship of empathy, even with the most vocal opponents. He was not even shaken by the provocations of the verbose Magno Malta (PL-ES).
Eduardo Girão (Novo-CE), an ultra-conservative of customs, said that he had respect for the cause he defends, of life from conception. “Fetal asystole is abominable,” said the sabatinado to the senator.
The nominee, however, rowed against the tide – no, one but three simultaneously, and the storm finally knocked him down.
The most intense wave was that of anti-feeling, which is experiencing one of the biggest crises in its history, certainly the worst since redemocratization.
If it is not possible at this moment to punish Alexandre de Moraes, as the Bolsonarists want, or Dias Toffoli and Gilmar Mendes, as even sectors of the center want, Messias has paid for it.
Without having a direct relationship with the fake news inquiry or the Master case, he paid for it, as if his rejection were a kind of generic impeachment of members of the court.
It also suffered the consequences of the electoral calendar. Five months before the first round of a very tight dispute, their defeat became an important trophy for the anti-Lulistas.
Although it is obviously not decisive for the electoral result itself, it gives a boost to the opposition and exponentially increases the crisis in the government, which loses credibility and any ability to dictate the political agenda.
If even Dilma Rousseff, a president with an aversion to political games, managed to approve Edson Fachin’s appointment to the STF in 2015, on the verge of impeachment, what can we say about Lula’s failure?
The image that remains is of a paralyzed government, with no political articulation, with a president at the end of his career.
Finally, and even further away from the direct jurisdiction of Messiah,. The nominee had the misfortune of facing a president with an obstructionist agenda to his name, to say the least.
The failure has some partners, in addition to the Executive and the new minister. Fachin lost an ally in the internal struggle to create a conduct manual for court members.
André Mendonça, who worked hard to reduce resistance among conservatives, will remain the lone terribly evangelical representative on the STF. We will never know what kind of alliance he could form with his brother of faith from the left.
As for Lula, there are now doubts about how he will be able to approve any positive agenda before the start of the campaign, such as the end of the 6×1 scale and the debt reduction program.
Worse still, his biography now includes having joined Floriano Peixoto as president who had a nominee for the STF rejected by the Senate.
