The 2026 Lisbon Forum will be a historic event. Organized by a private company owned by a minister and financed by hidden money (public and private), it will be historic not as a symbol of our republican sensibility, but in a scornful sense, if the Portuguese language forgives magistocracy for the semantic fusion of mockery with eschatology.
Between the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of June, we will be graced by this synthesis of abysmal promiscuity, this theater of radical flattery, this apotheosis of the fearless conflict of interests. In lobbying jargon, the meeting encourages “law made over dinners”, impartiality transformed into financed friendship, legality transformed into commensality.
One can learn the ethics of the legal professions through exemplarity, observing the integrity of judges, lawyers and clients. The Lisbon Forum practices counter-exemplarity: there, judges, lawyers and authorities teach ethics against the grain. An arena of complicity.
I’ve been writing for some time about this access to justice fair via box bracelet. Those neglected by Justice will not be there.
The Forum nominated him for the “ilarilarilariê” category. took the category “chronicles of promiscuous life”. “Take this question back to your editor, tell him to stick it up his ass”, uttered by the host indignant at the journalist’s question.
He appreciated the “lobbyist orgy from overseas” and the “magistocratic hell”. won in the “it’s not a lobby, it’s a hobby” category. It also stood out in the texts , “, and “, which tried to illuminate the “destinies of colonial viralism”.
In the last decade, the event was shocking due to its attendance. As in 2016, the height of Lava Jato, when the most Lava Jato judicial decision, was taken on Friday night, the eve of the Easter break, a holiday followed by the 4th Lisbon Forum. The injunction was not from , nor from Fachin or Barroso.
Michel Temer, Aécio Neves and José Serra, unsuspected in defending Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, were expected overseas. The magistrate-author of the monocratic injunction never considered by the STF plenary, as it was irreversible, was the businessman-host. The legal thesis, not endorsed by the plenary, contradicted Brazilian jurisprudence and an old consensus of comparative doctrine in public law.
It wasn’t even a mistake. It was Olympic usurpation.
The event seeks to facilitate lobbying and fundraising. The accounting remains hidden, as Brazilian control institutions are unable to investigate the flow. If they tried, they could suffer monocratic intervention.
The 2026 Forum was not only attracting attention due to its presence, but also due to its absence. Paulo Gonet, Michel Temer and Tarcísio de Freitas will be there, party goers. more emphatic.
It became more expensive to join. The reputational cost is high. Among bankers, Vorcaro will not finance cigars. These are Banco Master’s compliance rules, which require “critical judgment” from “third-party intermediaries”.
To polish the image, a Nobel laureate was invited. Someone needs to warn him.
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