Bolsonaro appoints Jorge Oliveira as TCU minister | Politics

The nomination had already been anticipated by Bolsonaro in an internal government meeting, as reported on Monday by Blog do Camarotti (5).

Bolsonaro was warned by Minister José Múcio, current president of the TCU, who will retire on December 31 of this year, anticipating the mandatory retirement period by 2 years and 9 months (when employees turn 75 years old).

To take office, Oliveira must be certified by the Senate Economic Affairs Committee (CAE) and have his name approved by the full House.

Like the vacancies of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), the position of minister of the TCU is for life up to the maximum age of 75 years, defined by the Federal Constitution. Jorge Oliveira is 45 years old and, if approved by the Senate, he can spend the next 30 years in the Court of Accounts.

The court consists of nine ministers, six of whom are appointed by Congress. The President of the Republic appoints three others, one directly and two others chosen from among the auditors and members of the Public Ministry who work with TCU.

Jorge Oliveira is close to Bolsonaro and came to consider the name for the vacancy of Minister Celso de Mello in the Federal Supreme Court (STF), which will retire next week. The president ended up opting for judge Kassio Marques, of the Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region (TRF-1).

Before, Oliveira was also considered by the president to assume the Ministry of Justice after the departure of Sergio Moro, but Bolsonaro chose André Luiz Mendonça.

Military Police of the Federal District Reserve and Law Degree (see profile below), Oliveira is one of Bolsonaro’s closest ministers, with whom he maintains a friendly relationship. Discreet in public statements, he dispatches daily with the president, since the General Secretariat operates in the Planalto Palace.

Oliveira worked with Jair Bolsonaro and his son, the current deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PSL-SP), in the Chamber of Deputies. In January 2019, with the current government taking office, he was appointed to command the Subdirectorate for Legal Affairs (SAJ), a body that analyzes the legality of presidential acts.

Oliveira, called “Jorginho” by Bolsonaro, joined the ministerial team in June of last year, when he was appointed prime minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, a portfolio that received the structure of the SAJ.

In office, the president praised the minister and recalled that Oliveira’s father, the military man Jorge Francisco, was his chief of staff in the Chamber of Deputies and a friend for decades. Francisco died in 2018, before Bolsonaro was elected president of the Republic.

“Jorginho is exceptional. Really, this boy here is a golden boy,” Bolsonaro said at the opportunity.

Jorge Antonio de Oliveira Francisco finished his baccalaureate at the Military School of Brasilia and reached the rank of major in the Military Police of the Federal District. He moved to the reserve in 2013 after two decades of work (1993-2013).

According to the General Secretariat, Oliveira has a degree in Law and Public Security Administration and a postgraduate degree in Public Law. The minister remains a teaching specialist in parliamentary advice and consulting.

The Planalto website records that Oliveira completed a law course at the Brasilia Institute of Higher Education in 2006. The postgraduate degree in Public Law was carried out at the Processus Institute.

The new minister was a parliamentary adviser to Jair Bolsonaro, who was a federal deputy. He also worked in the Chamber with the president’s son, Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro.