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In times of attacks against the Supreme Court and its members, it is the role of society to demonstrate its support for democratic institutions and to defend the court. The statement was made by the President of the STF, Minister Dias Toffoli, who participated in “Roda Viva”, TV culture, Monday night (11/5).
The journalists’ hearing gave priority to a confrontation with the government of President Jair Bolsonaro, his criticism and messages to the court, the visit to the Toffoli office last week and the support of anti-democratic protests.
The minister avoided criticism and maintained a conciliatory tone, defending the dialogue between the powers so that, even if the lines of action are not the same, there is harmony as required by the Constitution.
As an example, he noted that he opened the investigation against fake news against members of the Supreme Court in early March. In April, more than 400 entities went to court to show their support. “Society has to defend the Supreme Court. There is no democracy without a free press and a free judiciary,” he said. And he gave as an example the decision of Minister Celso de Mello, allowing the holding of a caravan against the ministers in Brasilia.
Toffoli has also denied complacency with the undemocratic statements of political agents in recent times. “It is not by releasing a note that a problem as serious as the one we have in the country is solved. We have to solve it in politics. It is the policy that defines the future of the nation and governs the president. And the judge speaks in the records and speaks in the forum. ” It does not go to the political arena, “he stressed.
The STF president admitted that, if, on the one hand, the Judiciary does not act proactively in the hottest issues in the country, on the other hand, it is obliged to define the problems due to failures of other powers. Therefore, he stressed, a concert between the powers of the Republic is necessary, to avoid collateral damage caused by the lack of harmony.
Monocrat decisions
Dealing with the profusion of preliminary decisions related to actions in the pandemic, Toffoli responded to criticism of interference in political affairs and defended the constitutional court’s general precautionary power. He said that more important than analyzing the problem or not, is to bring it quickly to the Plenary. “The problem is the busy schedule,” he said.
The president of the National Council of Justice (CNJ) also declared that the restriction of the STF’s criminal jurisdiction and the prerogative of the forum were very positive for the work of the ministers, which caused a drop in the number of criminal actions. And he classified the operation “lava jato” as “the result of a state institutional policy to combat corruption, in which STF participated from the beginning.”
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