The pre-candidate for President (Novo) stated in an interview with the program É Notícia, on RedeTV!, shown this Thursday (23), that the (Supreme Federal Court) has “rotten fruits” that demoralize the court.
According to the former governor of Minas Gerais, the ministers “used their positions, their influence, for enrichment, for personal benefit”. Zema cited the two’s “business” with .
The presidential candidate also stated that Supreme Court ministers “got closer to the biggest criminal in Brazil, at least in terms of coup volume”, in reference to , from Banco Master. “This is a punch in the face for Brazilians to see members of the highest court involved with Brazil’s biggest criminal,” he said.
Zema also attacked the president of , (-AP), who would be responsible for carrying out impeachment proceedings against Supreme Court ministers. “When we have a courageous Senate president, and not a cowed Senate president, this situation will correct itself.”
The former governor said that the Supreme Court once had respectability, but that it lost it “maybe 15 years ago.” According to him, until the times of Operation Lava Jato, the court still had ministers more concerned with deciding legally than with “brilliantism”. “They should run for Hollywood actors from what I see, not ministers,” he said.
Gilmar’s complaint was motivated by a video in which a doll that imitates the magistrate talks to another that represents Minister Dias Toffoli about the Master case. In the images, Toffoli’s puppet asks Gilmar’s puppet to suspend the breach of his confidentiality, determined by the Senate’s Organized Crime CPI, and the magistrate’s puppet annuls the decision in exchange for “a courtesy” at the Tayayá resort. After publication, Gilmar forwarded a criminal complaint to Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the investigation.
Tayayá was owned by Toffoli and was purchased by a fund linked to Daniel Vorcaro, from Banco Master.
Earlier this Thursday, Gilmar compared, in an interview with the Metrópoles portal, Zema’s criticism of the court to portraying the former governor as a homosexual and questioned whether this would not be “offensive”.
“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? Or if we make him steal money from the state, is that not offensive?”, said the dean of the STF.
Zema reacted in a post on Representative Nikolas Ferreira (PL-MG) accused Gilmar of homophobia.
On Wednesday (22), in an interview with opposition deputies in Brasília, Zema called the STF the “worst Supreme Court in history” and said that the court is “the arsonist in Brazil.”
