Entity against corruption says it is “inadmissible” Lula’s speech about secret ballot in the STF

The Instituto Não Accept Corrupção repudiated this Tuesday (5) the statement by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) who defended secret votes for ministers of the Federal Supreme Court (STF). The entity stated, in a note, that the PT’s proposal “goes against the necessary constant accountability of each of the members of the three branches of government to society.”

“In this context, the statement made by the President of the Republic on today’s date in the sense of proposing secrecy of the votes of the Justices of the Federal Supreme Court, without any support for that in the legal order, is deeply perplexing, since publicity is the rule in this regard. matter, so much so that since 2002 there has been a TV channel set up institutionally to allow society to monitor the votes of ministers – TV Justiça”, says the statement.

For the institute, “the hypothesis of generalizing secrecy for votes is obviously inadmissible”. The petista said, during a live, that society does not need to know how each minister voted. “Society does not have to know how the Supreme Court minister votes. The guy has to vote and nobody needs to know. A majority voted, no one needs to know who voted. Because everyone who loses is angry, everyone who wins is happy”, said the president.

“It is not plausible to consider this secrecy due to possible reactions of social displeasure to court decisions, as it is necessary to have the maturity and serenity to deal with such behaviors, legitimate in a democracy”, emphasized the entity.

In addition, the institute recalled that “Brazil is one of the eight world signatories of the Open Government Pact celebrated in 2011, during the PT government, along with the United States, Norway, Great Britain, Mexico, South Africa, Indonesia and the Philippines, condition that brought us the additional burden of always being the standard world model for disseminating open government and transparency”.