Minister Edson Fachin, president of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), defended this Friday the 19th, in the closing speech of the judicial year, the creation of a code of ethics for the judiciary. The project faces resistance from colleagues.
Fachin declared in his speech that magistrates have the duty to exercise their functions “with technical rigor, sobriety and historical awareness”.
“In this sense, I could not fail to refer to the proposal, still being developed, to debate a set of ethical guidelines for the judiciary,” he maintained.
The president of the STF also preached “restraint” of the judicial power, the overcoming of “personalisms which weaken republican structures” and “respect for the skills of other powers”.
“We were not elected by popular vote, but we are the Power charged by the Constitution with guarding it and ensuring its supremacy. This mission requires serenity, republican dialogue and attachment to the system of checks and balances, without which constitutional democracy weakens,” Fachin declared.
The STF president also said that the court “did not fail in its duty to apply and uphold the Constitution” and that the court decides “on the basis of the law and not on the basis of circumstantial expectations or external pressure.”
“In the exercise of constitutional jurisdiction, the Court rendered, throughout the year, judgments of high institutional importance, in which it reaffirmed the central character of the Constitution as a parameter of validity of laws and acts of public power, as well as the commitment to the protection of fundamental rights, the preservation of democracy and respect for the principle of separation of powers.”
At the end of the speech, the minister recorded the revocation of the sanctions imposed by the government of Donald Trump on Minister Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the putschist processes, on the basis of the Magnitsky law. Fachin described the measure as “unfair and unacceptable”.
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