“Sometimes, I allow myself to suggest or make considerations”, says Dean of the Court about ministerial appointments
The dean minister (oldest in office) of the Federal Supreme Court, Gilmar Mendes, welcomes the recommendation of the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Flavio Dino, for the vacancy on the Court left by Rosa Weber. According to him, Dino’s legal and political profiles will reinforce the composition of the STF.
“I have the best expectations. I think a person with a solid legal profile and a well-designed political profile is coming and I think he reinforces the composition of the Federal Supreme Court”, said Gilmar in interview The Folha de S.Paulo.
Gilmar also praised deputy attorney Paulo Gustavo Gonet Branco, 62 years old, who was appointed by the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) to command the PGR (Attorney General’s Office). Gonet will take the place left by Augusto Aras in September. Dino and Gonet’s hearings in the Senate are scheduled for December 13th.
The minister mitigated possible influences on Lula’s choices. “I sometimes allow myself to suggest or make considerations, and, in this specific case, there is a difficulty in having names given everything that happened. In every episode, the president is convinced that the triple list was a failure, because he adopted it in the previous model.”
According to him, with Gonet, “accumulated errors” of the PGR in recent years will not be repeated. “Obviously, when asked, I give my opinion and make my considerations. I believe that it is important that past mistakes and accumulated mistakes are not repeated. If we look, the Attorney General’s Office has failed, and failed a lot, in this general context of recent years.”
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