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The STF panics after Augusto Aras, Attorney General of the Republic, comes to the defense of President Jair Bolsonaro, citing the possibility of declaring a state of defense.
“Aras released an official statement to inform that he does not feel obliged to evaluate illicit acts attributed to Jair Bolsonaro in the management of the pandemic. The PGR warned that if the pandemic worsens, the president can decree a state of defense,” says Josias de Souza.
After that, STF minister Marco Aurélio Mello spoke out, expressing all the despair of the supreme court, and labeled Aras' note as “worrying”.
“I don’t look favorably on this movement by those who need to be seen as the greatest enforcer of the law. I fear for the rule of law,” Marco Aurélio Mello told CNN.
Aras suggests that the president could decree a 'state of defense' to preserve 'institutional stability'. In this way, the STF would be tied to proceed with a possible impeachment of Bolsonaro.
“In this difficult moment in national public life, it is clear that institutions are functioning regularly in the midst of a pandemic that haunts the global community, making it necessary to maintain the legal order in order to preserve the stability of the Democratic State,” stated the PGR.
Members of the Supreme Court are in despair over yet another “victory” for Bolsonaro.
Frightened, Mello said: “Where there is smoke there is fire. Health crisis, economic crisis, social crisis and now, apparently, political crisis. [..] Let the institutions function, in defense of democracy and the rule of law.”
Another minister, who was afraid to be identified, described Aras’s note as “madness”.
Why is the Supreme Court so desperate to keep openings for Bolsonaro's impeachment? What are the president's crimes? What are the Supreme Court's interests in this?
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