by Ricardo Brito
BRASILIA (Reuters) – President Jair Bolsonaro said that former Justice Minister Sergio Moro thought he owned the portfolio, noting that it is not up to him to comment on the fact that Moro is a pre-candidate for Palácio do Planalto this year.
In an interview recorded with Jovem Pan, which aired this Monday morning, Bolsonaro said he had veto power on any appointments and criticized the difficulty he had in barring in 2019 the choice of Ilona Szabó –made by Moro– as alternate of the National Prison Policy Council.
“I spent three days firing this woman, he started to think he was the owner of the ministry,” he complained.
Bolsonaro also countered Moro’s criticism that there would be militiamen in the government. He said that the ex-auxiliary had a year and four months in the government and found nothing, questioning whether he had prevaricated.
The president repeated that, on the eve of Moro’s resignation from the portfolio, in April 2020, the then minister said he would accept to give in to the nomination of the director general of the Federal Police to be nominated in the future to be minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF). He called it petulance.
Moro has already denied this speech by Bolsonaro on several occasions. He recently joined Podemos to run for president in October.
The discussion of the president’s alleged pressure for Moro to change the director-general of the PF culminated in the minister’s departure from the government – who became known for his work as a judge in Operation Lava Jato – and led to an inquiry underway in the STF to investigate whether Bolsonaro sought interfere with the Federal Police.
This investigation was recently extended for another 90 days by Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF.
In the interview, Bolsonaro also said that the president who will be elected this year will appoint two Supreme Court ministers in 2023 and said that he already has in mind, if he wins, who would be his chosen ones.
He has already chosen ministers Nunes Marques and André Mendonça during the current administration.
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