President Luiz Inácio da Silva stated this Friday (29) that he will resend the name for the vacancy of the (Federal Supreme Court) to the Senate, even after.
“I lost the nomination of my Supreme Court minister. I was sad, because he was not defeated due to legal incompetence, he is one of the best lawyers in this country. He was not defeated because he has a dirty record in his life, he is one of the most honest in this country. He was defeated for a purely political issue. And what will happen, senators? I will send the Messiah again”, said Lula.
He also stated that the resend of the name will be done out of respect for the presidential role. “I’m the one who nominates. The Senate can defeat someone if they don’t have legal competence. Then the Senate says: ‘I’m not going to vote for you because you’re a cheap lawyer’.”
The statements were made at an event in Sergipe, where the president announced investments from Petrobras.
that would resend the name of Messiah. According to people close to us, the objective would be to reaffirm that the choice is the prerogative of the President of the Republic. In conversations, he also said he was aware that the Senate did not impose a personal defeat on Messias, but on his government.
Messias’ defeat represented a problem in the political articulation of the PT administration with Congress, since the number of votes in favor of Messias was lower than had been predicted by government leaders. Despite this, Lula told allies that he does not intend to make changes to the political coordination team, even with the unprecedented rejection. For him, the leader of the government in the Senate, (PT-BA), .
The president should also not give up (Institutional Relations), the government’s representative in political coordination with Congress.
