Targets of Operation Lava Jato celebrate Dallagnol’s impeachment by the TSE

Two of the main targets of Operation Lava Jato, which was commanded by federal deputy Deltan Dallagnol (Podemos-PR) when he was still acting as prosecutor of the Federal Public Ministry, and one of the ministers of the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), who arrived to be arrested during the investigations, celebrated the removal of the parliamentary mandate by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) on Tuesday night (16).

On social media, the former president of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunhaposted a short message with the words “Bye dear”, in reference to the phrase that became famous during the impeachment process of former president Dilma Rousseff (PT), in 2016. Cunha was the president of the house at the time and determined the opening of the impediment.

Renan Calheiros (MDB-AL), who was also the target of Lava Jato, called Dallagnol a “dirty rat” and said that the deputy “offended in the MP [Ministério Público] greedy for power”. “In order to defraud the law, he brought forward his dismissal to avoid a clean record, even with 2 convictions at the CNMP – 1 of my authorship – and 15 lawsuits. Justice takes time, but it does not fail”, he added in the twitter.

President Lula did not comment on Dallagnol’s conviction. But, his Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, said in the social media that “I remembered a biblical text, which I dedicate to President Lula. ‘Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied’”.

Dino went further and stated that, when he was a federal deputy in 2010, he was the author of an amendment to the Clean Record Law that determined the application of the legislation to magistrates and MP members. “But I swear I don’t travel in time, before they accuse me of it,” he said in a post.

Other targets of Operation Lava Jato, such as former finance ministers, Antonio Palocci and Guido Mantega; the former Minister of the Civil House, José Dirceu; former president of the Chamber of Deputies, Henrique Eduardo Alves; the former president of the Senate, Garibaldi Alves; former senator Delcídio do Amaral and former president Dilma Rousseff did not comment on the impeachment of the former prosecutor.