Fachin criticizes alleged amnesty for those who lied about Electoral Justice

Minister Edson Fachin, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), criticized today (28) what he called an “ignoble attempt” to grant amnesty for fraud to female representation in politics and also to forgive people who have openly lied about the Electoral Justice. He attributed to sectarian groups “actions that, sometimes openly, sometimes surreptitiously, undermine equality and responsibility, especially now, when this is seen in the ignoble attempt to amnesty those who acted against the representation of women or against those who lied about Justice Electoral”. The minister spoke at the opening of a lecture at the Supreme Court, organized by his office, with the theme The future of constitutional democracy in Brazil, given by Professor Oscar Vilhena, founder and director of the law school at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). Fachin’s speech comes at a time when a group of deputies is trying to approve an amnesty of fines and other punishments for parties that have defrauded the gender quota in the 2022 general elections. previous years, and now the parliamentarians want to postpone the pardon to also include last year’s electoral process. Proposed Constitutional Amendment (PEC) with 184 signatures was filed at the end of March in the Chamber. Deputies from Avante, PDT, Podemos, PT, PL, Republicans, PSDB, PSB and PSD sign the project. Among the signatories are opposition leaders, Carlos Jordy (PL-RJ), and government leaders, José Guimarães (PT-CE). In parallel, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) is about to judge, in the coming weeks, a lawsuit filed by the PDT that asks for the ineligibility of former president Jair Bolsonaro, on the grounds that he would have knowingly lied about the electronic voting machines and the process election in a meeting with ambassadors, when he was still in office. Fachin said he warned, more than once, before the anti-democratic acts of January 8, about the signs of disrespect for equality and political divergence, which resulted in the attacks. “Such signs were already being given as a tragedy, in which the characters know their destiny, but little can”, said the minister.

Agência Brasil