Opposition leader in the Senate repudiates Barroso’s speech at a UNE event

The leader of the opposition in the Senate, Rogério Marinho (PL-RN), repudiated this Thursday (13) the statements of Minister Luís Roberto Barroso, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), at an event of the National Union of Students (UNE) . The minister said, on the night of this Wednesday (12), that he faced and defeated “Bolsonarism”.

In a note, Marinho said that the fact that Barroso “attended to an event with a clear political nature and issued opinions, making statements related to positions adopted in the last election, is a serious fact”. The senator said, on video, that “it is necessary that the judiciary in Brazil respect the Constitution”.

“This situation is aggravated by the Note issued by the Federal Supreme Court, when trying to dissociate the necessary institutional posture of the Minister from his personal condition, since the speech of his Excellency “We defeat the dictatorship and Bolsonarism” referred to the popular vote , and not the performance of any institution”, criticized the leader of the opposition.

The Court stated that the Minister’s statement did not refer to “the performance of any institution”. “It referred to the popular vote,” the court said in the note. Barroso is the next to assume the presidency of the STF. In a note, the minister recanted.

“We hope that the future mandate of the President of the Federal Supreme Court will not be guided by this type of behavior that clearly favors a certain political spectrum, undermining the necessary vision of plurality and impartiality that society needs to have in relation to the Judiciary”, he said. Marine.