Senator Damares Alves (Republicanos-PB) presented, this Tuesday (23/12), a request for impeachment against Minister Alexandre de Moraes, from the Supreme Federal Court (STF). The parliamentarian accuses the magistrate of “administrative advocacy” after allegedly asking, at least four times, the president of the Central Bank (BC), Gabriel Galípolo, to intercede in favor of Banco Master, owned by Daniel Vorcaro. Moraes said the problem with Galípolo was another issue, the Magnitsky Act.
The affair was revealed by columnist Malu Gaspar, of the newspaper The globe. Besides the request for dismissal, Damares also filed a criminal complaint with the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) and asked Moraes to provide clarification to the CAE (Economic Affairs Committee) of the Senate.
The senator said that the “extrajudicial action” of one of the members of the Supreme Court “corrupts the core of the legitimacy of the Court itself” and added that “administrative defense, when exercised by a minister of the Federal Supreme Court, becomes a systemic risk.”
The request for impeachment is addressed to the President of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre (União Brasil-AP). It is up to the Chamber to admit and analyze the requests for dismissal of STF ministers. Moraes has more than 80 such representations in the Senate, none of which are current.
“The omission of the Federal Senate in the face of behavior of this nature would amount to accepting that the ministers of the Federal Supreme Court are above any political-constitutional control, which directly contravenes the republican regime and the principle of responsibility of public officials,” Damares said in the document.
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In a statement, Moraes said he met with Galípolo to discuss the effects of the Magnitsky Act, applied against the magistrate and his family members by the United States government and withdrawn on December 12.
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