There was a time when a person’s power could be measured by their ability to open doors. Today, this is also measured by your ability to close them.
After the demolition of Lava Jato, this movement was predictable, on a smaller scale.
1 – Gilmar protects the Supreme
In a few days, Minister Gilmar Mendes blocked the right of citizens to initiate impeachment proceedings against the judges of the Federal Court. From now on, the only person who can do this is the Attorney General of the Republic. It seems that the minister wants to protect the court against the possibility that next year the opposition will obtain the number of senators that could embarrass ministers Alexandre de Moraes and Flávio Dino. It looks and feels like that.
2 – Toffoli locks the Master
Going further down, Minister Dias Toffoli determined that any process or investigation regarding Banco Master should be entrusted to his office. Daniel Vorcaro’s bank generated dangerous connections and a loss of 12 billion reais. The defense of the directors of the Master requested a broad, general and unrestricted suspension of the investigations, which was not obtained, but on the same day the federal police froze their work.
Master’s process began to take place in secret.
3 – The CPI will not listen to Lulinha
On Thursday, the CPI on the theft against retirees rejected by 19 votes to 12 the request for summons of Fábio Luís Lula da Silva, known as Lulinha. Hours earlier, journalist Mariana Hubert revealed that Edson Claro, a former Careca INSS employee, told the CPI that Lulinha received around 25 million reais from Finório, with allocations of 300,000 reais to take advantage of tenders from the Ministry of Health.
Anyone familiar with the darkness of Brasilia finds these figures strange. That’s a lot of money.
Lulinha now lives in Spain and suffers from his affiliation, but an ICC which already protected Frei Chico, or José Ferreira da Silva, Lula’s older brother, was quick to close the door. Frei Chico is director and vice-president of the National Union of Pensioners.
In 2020, Sindinapi received 23.3 million reais from the government due to fees charged to retirees. In 2024, transfers to Sindinapi reached 154.7 million reais. Last April, when the entities’ theft was revealed, Frei Chico said he was waiting for an investigation into “all the mess that’s going on” at the INSS.
The ICC decided not to summon him.
The Revenge of Congress
Today, the change Congress will make to the government and the Supreme Court will be:
A constitutional amendment will be approved, increasing the number of court ministers from 11 to 13.
The two new seats will be filled by candidates from the Senate and House.
In the first choice, the Senate will nominate former president Rodrigo Pacheco. A slap with the glove to Lula, who passed him. The House could appoint deputy Marcos Pereira, president of the Republicans. Two minors.
For those who want to fan the embers of an institutional crisis, this is an excellent idea.
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Some senators hoped to receive the nomination of Jorge Messias to unseat him with 54 votes.
54 is the number of senators needed to remove a minister from the Supreme Court.
This would explain the eagerness of Gilmar Mendes to cede the prerogative of opening the file to the Attorney General.
Gilmar and Alcolumbre
By protecting the ministers of the Supreme Court, Gilmar Mendes took the President of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre, off the ropes.
The Senate President works miracles when it comes to judicial appointments.
An expert on life in Brasilia guarantees it: at least two ministers of the Supreme Court were saved by the Planalto gong. One fell into the hands of the Committee on the Constitution and Justice; the other, in plenary.
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