With a solemn session in the plenary of the Senate, the National Congress remembered, this Wednesday (1st), the centenary of the death of the jurist, writer and politician Ruy Barbosa. When talking about his work in defense of causes such as the abolition of slavery, the guarantee of human rights and the democratization of the country, the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), referred to the honoree as “the greatest of the Brazilians”. noble causes such as the abolition of slavery, the guarantee of human rights, the republican cause and the democratization of Brazil”, stated Pacheco. Ruy Barbosa served 5 terms as a senator and ran twice for the Presidency of the Republic – Lula Marques/Agência Brasil Owner of an outstanding personality, Ruy Barbosa knew how to use the tribune of the Federal Senate to advocate his causes, most of the time giving real classes in politics and justice, said the congressman. Considered the patron of the Senate, the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) and Brazilian lawyers, Ruy Barbosa was also a diplomat, translator and journalist. He was one of the founding members of the Senate in 1890 and served five terms as senator. He ran for President of the Republic twice and was a founding member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL), an entity he presided over between 1908 and 1919. of fake news, that true serpent’s egg of the anti-democratic movements of our time. This is because Barbosa was not only one of the fathers of the Brazilian republic, but also one of the most ardent devotees of democracy. This, he declared, is the ‘principle of the future’, it represents the power of the people, equality and progress — civilizing advances that oppose the retreat of authoritarian governments, since no people that govern themselves would tolerate the substitution of national sovereignty for the sovereignty of the sword, pointed out the President of the Senate. The President of the Federal Supreme Court, Minister Rosa Weber, who also participated in the session, spoke of Ruy Barbosa’s intransigent defense of the prevalence of individual rights over illegal government acts. “It started from the non-negotiable premise that, between a founding constitutional principle and a momentary political necessity, the principle and a momentary political necessity, the principle would prevail”, she stated. The former president of the Republic and of the National Congress, José Sarney, highlighted the international recognition of Ruy Barbosa after his participation in the second International Peace Conference, 1907, in the city of The Hague, in the Netherlands. “The great genius who, even abroad, got the title of ‘Eagle of The Hague’ because he raised the doctrine that has remained until today, which was very just and very vindicated, of the equality of all nations, small or large. They should have the same international weight,” said Sarney. Listen on Radioagência special report on Ruy Barbosa:
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