RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Last year’s Forum was held online due to the coronavirus pandemic. This time the Forum will be held in hybrid format. Until the in-person suspension due to the outbreak, meetings were held in April.
Already confirmed are the presences of Senate president Rodrigo Pacheco; Chamber of Deputies president Arthur Lira; the Presidency’s Government Secretariat chief Minister Flávia Arruda; ex-president Michel Temer; and former Federal Attorney General André Mendonça, appointed to a position in the Federal Supreme Court in July, but who has not yet been approved by Senators (recent signals suggest that the “test” with legislators will only be held next year). The participation of the current Federal Solicitor General Bruno Bianco is also confirmed.
Among politicians in opposition to the current government, the agenda includes the attendance of Senator Jacques Wagner, who was also at COP26, and of former ministers Aldo Rebelo and Raul Jungmann. Wagner has been at the Lisbon event in other editions.
Gilmar Mendes regularly invites his Supreme Court colleagues to the Lisbon Forum. This time, Justices Dias Toffoli and Alexandre de Moraes are expected to attend – the latter attended the event’s last edition. In addition, the event’s program also includes Federal Superior Court (STJ) magistrates Luís Felipe Salomão and Antonio Carlos Ferreira, as well as Federal Audit Court (TCU) Chief Judge Bruno Dantas.
In addition to Executive officials, several TCU representatives attended the COP26 in Glasgow in the past 2 weeks, as well as 11 governors, mayors, and Senator Pacheco. In Lisbon, the Senate president gave an interview to ‘Diário de Notícias’ newspaper saying that an impeachment in Brazil at this time “would be very bad.” One of the panels will feature one of Pacheco’s political allies for the 2022 election, PSD president Gilberto Kassab.
This is the Forum’s 9th edition. In previous seminars, several representatives of the country’s political and legal universe participated in debates, such as the former Minister of Security Sérgio Moro, ex-president of the Chamber of Deputies Rodrigo Maia, and former STJ Chief Justice João Otávio de Noronha.