It was a disaster of aeronautical proportions, even in the fact that there was not one, but many reasons for the accident.
Loose screws on all sides — from the Planalto Palace, the Federal Supreme Court, a hostile Congress presidency and one with an electoral agenda — led to the action. One .
That’s what life says: things don’t happen until they start to happen. It was like this when the gate to presidential impeachments opened. It may be that the way has also been opened for the impeachment of STF ministers, but this is something to be seen in the future in terms of consequences.
In the most immediate field of causes, there are several to be taken into account. The government’s moment of political fragility, from the point of view of the expectation of power combined with questions about the quality and criteria of the nomination, made him the ideal candidate for the gesture of retaliation and affirmation of (União-AP)’s control over the Senate.
President Luiz Inácio da Silva (PT) on the one hand underestimated his opponent and on the other hand overestimated the competence of his political articulation team, also relying on the support spread by some magistrates who, it turned out later, were more interested in a rejection that could appease the opposition’s bloodlust in relation to the court.
Aware of the risk, the activist wing of the court thought that the best way to protect itself would be to go into combat — and did so in an attempt to change the impeachment procedure for ministers, the ban on the work of commissions of inquiry and specific threats to anyone who dared to question their presumed untouchability.
On Wednesday (29), the rebound effect occurred in the form of the most humiliating defeat of all those suffered by . The result of that 42 to 34 was so stunning that there was no plan B on the horizon. Of the possible ways around the setback, none provide a good way out. As in aviation disasters, we look for the black box that might contain the solution.
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