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The Supreme Court decision comes after a conspiracy between the judge and prosecutors in the Lula da Silva case was revealed. A hacker managed to obtain audio recordings showing that Judge Sergio Moro pressured prosecutors to present more evidence in order to convict Lula da Silva and thus have him excluded from participating in the 2018 presidential elections against the professional military officer Bolsonaro. The conspiracy succeeded and Lula da Silva was sentenced to more than twelve years in prison for corruption and therefore lost his political rights to run in future elections.
Supreme Court Judge Edson Fachin believes that Judge Sergio Moro, who later became justice minister in the Bolsonaro government, violated legal principles when he called prosecutors and suggested how they would conduct the investigation in order to convict Lula da Silva. One of the lawsuits concerned an attic in a spa that prosecutors believed Lula da Silva received from a construction company as thanks for the government’s valuable construction contracts. Although it was not possible to prove that the former president of Brazil received the apartment, he was sentenced to twelve years in prison both in the first and second instance.
Lula da Silva was arrested before the election campaign began in 2018 and was only released after 580 days in prison.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Curitiba court, where Sergio Moro was the superior judge, has no jurisdiction to resolve the case and has requested that the case be transferred to the court in the capital, Brasilia.
The decision has been received to the joy of the opposition, which has struggled to agree on a candidate who could face the popular right-wing nationalist Jair Bolsonaro in next year’s presidential election. No one, neither from the left nor from the right, has so far managed to create a coalition that can catch up with Bolsonaro’s popularity. Now that Lula da Silva has regained his political rights, he can form a coalition and run in the 2022 presidential elections.
Lula da Silva was president of Brazil from the golden years of 2003 to 2010, when the country was close to becoming the world’s fifth-largest economy and it was decided that Brazil would host the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the Summer Olympics. 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.
