Minister Luiz Fux says that there is a “judicialization of politics”, with parties resorting to the STF after parliamentary decisions.| Photo: YouTube/playback

Minister Luiz Fux, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) criticized the leaders of political parties who appeal to the Supreme Court for decisions and votes against them taken in parliament. The statement was given during an event of the Union of Accounting Services Companies of São Paulo (Sescon-SP) this Friday (10).

According to the minister, it has become commonplace for the STF to receive demands from parliamentarians who have not reached an agreement in discussions in Congress for whatever reason. This, he says, happens because “parliament is very divided, and nobody wants to pay the social price of the unsympathetic measure”.

“And the Supreme Court is forced to act in cases in which it has no expertise,” he said, citing as an example the Ministry of Education rule that defined the minimum school age. “I don’t know what is the good age to go to school, I didn’t do pedagogy”, he added.

Fux also criticized small parties with little parliamentary representation that appeal to the STF after losing votes, but without mentioning which cases support this statement. “It was necessary to have a PEC
[Proposta de Emenda à Constituição] that established that the most he could do was to provoke the Public Prosecutor”, he stated.

“I recently heard a politician at a political meeting say this: ‘we have to end the judicialization of politics’. Politics is resolved in parliament, not in the judiciary”, added minister Luiz Fux at the event.