The Minister of the Federal Supreme Court, Dias Toffoli.| Photo: Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom/Agencia Brasil

The Federal Supreme Court (STF) interrupted this Friday (31) the judgment on the validity of the injunction that suspended part of the State-Owned Companies Law. The Court analyzes the monocratic decision of Minister Ricardo Lewandowski, rapporteur of the action, who suspended the section of the rule that prevented ministers of State and state and municipal secretaries from acting on the boards and boards of directors of state-owned companies.

The decision was placed this Friday for a referendum of the Supreme Court’s virtual plenary, but the trial was suspended due to a request for a view from Minister Dias Toffoli, reported Agência Brasil. Despite the suspension of the trial, Lewandowski’s injunction remains in effect. Entities that act against corruption classified the rapporteur’s decision as a “setback”.

This is not the first interruption of the trial, on the last 11th, Minister André Mendonça had also requested more time to analyze the case. The easing of the State-Owned Law was released from an action filed by the PCdoB. In the decision, Lewandowski said that the law restricted nominations for state-owned companies.

“Despite the well-intentioned intentions of the legislator in this regard, the State-Owned Companies Law, by all indications, went far beyond the limitations already established in the legal system, creating hypotheses for prohibiting the choice of administrators, which function as an absolute impediment to the appointment “, wrote the rapporteur.