They have similar ideas, but it wasn’t always that way. One of the main organizers of the pre-campaign of former judge Sérgio Moro (Podemos) for the Presidency of the Republic, senator and party colleague Oriovisto Guimarães, 76, has already been on the other side of politics. A contemporary of PT José Dirceu, he participated in student movements against the military dictatorship and was even arrested, labeled a communist.
The year was 1968. “Everyone who was against the dictatorship at that time was linked to left-wing parties, official or not. We discussed Marxism, a number of things. I shared these ideas, but when I got married and the first child was born, I had to start working and I understood that that story didn’t work”, says the richest senator in Congress. From a Marxist, he became a liberal and a millionaire, with a reported fortune of R$240 million in assets.
The arrest took place at the historic 30th Congress of the National Union of Students (UNE) in Ibiúna, in the interior of São Paulo. About a thousand young people were detained by the Public Force and sent to the capital. Guimarães was 23 years old and on the list. “We spent about a week in Tiradentes prison, downtown. They threatened to beat me up, but I wasn’t tortured. Then, back in Paraná, we tried to hold a new congress and that’s when I got out of there by a stroke of luck. The agents found out that we were going to have a preparatory meeting. Everyone who was there was imprisoned for two years. I couldn’t go, so I escaped.”
With the publication of AI-5 and the beginning of the most violent phase of military repression, Oriovisto decided to put politics aside. Registered with the Department of Political and Social Order (Dops), he was not able to enjoy a scholarship at Harvard (his passport was withheld) nor was his wife able to pursue a career as a history teacher. The eldest son of eight siblings, he began to dedicate himself to business life and, in 1972, he opened a preparatory course for the university entrance exam that became an empire in Curitiba.
The company’s retirement came in 2013 and with it the interest in returning to the political scene. Five years later, encouraged by his friend Alvaro Dias (Podes-PR), he accepted to be a candidate for the Senate for Podemos. Defender of Lava Jato, and a declared fan of Moro, he was elected with almost 3 million votes in the Bolsonarista wave.
Since then, he has continued to defend what he classifies as ethical and essential values for the development of the country. On the list, prison in second instance, the end of the privileged forum and the reform of the Judiciary.
Currently, one of its priorities is to approve a Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) that regulates the monocratic decisions of ministers of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and other courts. The text, rejected in the Senate in 2019, was resubmitted last year and provides that precautionary decisions cannot be monocratic in cases of declaration of unconstitutionality, suspension of the effectiveness of law or normative acts, such as decrees.
Reform of the Judiciary
It is these issues related to the Judiciary that bring the “ex-communist” closer to Sérgio Moro. “I support the reform he suggests. I don’t know the details of the plan, but I know that something needs to be done about it. A judge alone cannot resolve to strike down a law passed by the entire Congress,” he says.
But, despite being an ally, Oriovisto says he does not consider Moro a “savior of the homeland”. “He has a beautiful university education, a very high level of culture, a history of serious life. But I know he’s not a savior of the country and I don’t know if I’ll agree with everything he thinks. I once asked him in the Senate why judges have a 60-day vacation and he scrambled to answer.”
Critical of the increase in the electoral fund, he says that he will not give a “penny” to anyone in these elections. Nor to Moro’s campaign. “With this absurd amount of public money, why give more money to politicians?” he asks.
About the former judge’s chances, Oriovisto is more restrained. “Things will only take two, three months before the elections. If Moro gives up, it will be at 45 of the second half. But if he goes to the second round, I think he is elected.”
The information is from the newspaper. The State of São Paulo.
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