Bolsonaro Announces Appointment of Kassio Nunes Marques to Supreme Court Vacancy | Politics

According to Bolsonaro, the nomination will be published in the “Official Gazette” this Friday (2). Marques is the current judge of the Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region, based in Brasilia.

“It will be published tomorrow in the Official Gazette of the Union, due to the pandemic we are in a hurry for that, we spoke with the Senate, the name of Kassio Marques for our first seat in the Federal Supreme Court,” said the president during a transmission on social network .

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“We also have a vacancy scheduled for next year. This second vacancy is going to be for an evangelical, right? Now, they are shooting at you, whoever I tell them to would take it. There were about ten resumes on my desk.”

After publication, Marques must still undergo a hearing in the Federal Senate and have his name approved in plenary session, by an absolute majority of senators. The rite is defined by the Federal Constitution.

Friendship is an ‘important’ criterion

Bolsonaro stated in the broadcast that their friendship is an “important” criterion for the appointment of ministers. Besides being an evangelical, the candidate to fill the vacancy of Minister Marco Aurélio Mello (who will retire due to age in 2021) will have to “take tubaína” with the president.

“The friendship question is an important thing, you know. The coexistence of the people. I’ll point you out next year, first prerequisite: you have to be evangelical, ‘terribly evangelical’. Second prerequisite: you have to take tubaína with me, put on it, ”says Bolsonaro.

“There’s no point getting a resume here right now, wonderful, ten. Ten, the curriculum, indicated by the authorities, ten. But if I don’t know, I won’t indicate it. My commitment is with an evangelical, ”he continued.

“When in the past they said there had to be a black man, there had to be a woman, nobody said anything. When I say that there must be an evangelical … But it is not only because he is an evangelical, he must also have knowledge of the cause. You have to travel to Brasilia, meet people from the Supreme Court, get to know the Parliament. ”

Bolsonaro also affirmed that the intention when appointing an evangelical minister will be to defend conservative interests and “win something there too”, referring to the issues that are brought to the STF.

“I want to put a person there, it is not voting for certain things and losing by 10 to 1, everything. ‘Ah, I voted against’. No, I want that person to vote with their convictions, according to the interests of the conservatives.” , but looking for a way to win something there too ”, he said.

In announcing the nomination of Kassio Marques, Bolsonaro criticized, without naming names, other candidates for the vacancy who had made negative comments about the judge.

Now, which is unfortunate. Of the ten, choose one. Of the remaining nine, half, four, five start shooting at the guy. They accuse him of being a communist, a socialist, linked to the PT. Look, everyone here, in the course of 14 years of the PT had some connection. Not for that reason the guy is communist, socialist, “he declared.

Bolsonaro also defended the curriculum of other names considered “supreme”, such as the current Justice Ministers, André Mendonça, and the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Jorge Oliveira – and said that both are still “on tape.”

“They say that [Kassio] it is disarmament, it has nothing to do with it. I know him a lot, he already took the tubaína. The theme of the family, he is Catholic, it is the family. I am sure you will like your work in the Federal Supreme Court, ”he said.

In mocking the criticism, the President of the Republic also cited the former Minister of Justice Sergio Moro – who, according to him, was one of the most requested names to be appointed to the STF. Moro left the government in April, when he accused Bolsonaro of trying to interfere politically with the Federal Police.

“Until April of this year, you wanted who for the Supreme Court, and you accused me? You wanted Sergio Moro, right? And they threatened me all the time, ‘if it’s not Sergio Moro for the Supreme Court, it’s over, it’s over”. “And now, do you want me to change Kassio for Sergio Moro?” He asked the live viewers.

Replacement in progress

The name of Kassio Marques emerged as one of the leading candidates for the vacancy earlier in the week, when the judge met with Bolsonaro and Minister Gilmar Mendes, according to Blog Camarotti. Minister Dias Toffoli, who left the presidency of the Supreme Court in September, also participated in the conversation.

Celso de Mello informed the STF presidency that he will retire on October 13, although the mandatory retirement date is November 1, when he turns 75.

With the decision, the Dean (oldest minister) of the Supreme Court should advance his departure by just over two weeks.

During the broadcast on social networks, Bolsonaro also commented on the debate between the presidential candidates of the United States, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, last Tuesday (29).

Biden accused current President Trump of not using his influence to help defend the Brazilian Amazon and said that, if elected, he would try to unite other countries to act in this direction, even threatening Brazil economically.

“We regret the debate in the United States. Biden said that he was going to receive 20 billion dollars to give us to end the fire in the Amazon, and that he would impose sanctions on us.” […] We have already restored diplomacy with Trump. Biden, I don’t know if to win a vote it seems that he wants to break the relationship with Brazil because of the Amazon, ”he said.