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BRASILIA – Minister Luiz Fux takes office this Thursday as president of the Federal Supreme Court (STF). He will hold the post for the next two years, replacing Minister Dias Toffoli. Minister Rosa Weber will be the vice president. Due to the pandemic, the opening ceremony will be attended by only a few officials and family members of Fux. The use of masks will be mandatory and the temperature of the gifts will be measured. There will also be rules about the distance between the chairs.
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Transparent acrylics will be installed temporarily on the minister’s bench and on the honor table to isolate each other’s space. The alcohol gel will be available in all positions.
President Jair Bolsonaro will be physically present; the presidents of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre (DEM-AP), and of the Chamber of Deputies, Rodrigo Maia; the Attorney General of the Republic, Augusto Aras; the president of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), Felipe Santa Cruz; and the STF ministers. Approximately 4,000 invitations were sent to people to control their possession via the Internet.
According to the ceremonial, also due to the pandemic, the traditional photograph of the new composition of the Court will not be taken. Nor will there be compliments at court, or later reception, as is the practice in other years.
Fux is 67 years old and was born in Rio de Janeiro. She graduated in Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) in 1976 and, in the following two years, she practiced law. Then he was a prosecutor and, in 1983, he passed a contest for state judge.
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In 2001, he was appointed to a position in the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Ten years later he arrived at the STF, elected by President Dilma Rousseff. A specialist in Civil Law, a discipline he teaches at the UERJ, Fux coordinated a working group in Congress that formulated the new Code of Civil Procedure, sanctioned in 2015. The law is known in the legal sphere as the “Fux Code”.
At the STF, Fux stood out in defending the stricter interpretation of the Clean Registry Law, which prevented the candidacy of politicians convicted by higher courts. The minister was also a member of and presided over the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE).
