With 17 votes in favor, 5 against, and one abstention, the city councilors of Curitiba, the capital of the Paraná state and largest city in the country’s wealthy South, approved a motion of protest against the abusive acts of the Justice of the Supreme Court STF, Alexandre de Moraes.
Councilman Rodrigo Marcial from the New Party proposed the motion.
The goal is to mobilize the other legislative branches to join “the statements already made by civil society, calling for an end to the Federal Senate’s omission.
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According to the document, Moraes’ acts are an “offense to the Constitution of the Republic, which he should defend, observe, and guard.”
The goal is to mobilize the other legislative branches to join “the statements already made by civil society, calling for an end to the omission of the Federal Senate of Brazil regarding its competence to judge transgressions against Brazilian institutions promoted by the Justices of the Supreme Court”.
According to the motion’s author, the document represents “the discontent of the Curitiba population in the face of the arbitrary actions of Alexandre de Moraes”.
Rodrigo Marcial also cited the controversial investigation of fake news, led by Moraes, as an example of “acts contrary to the rule of law” committed by the Justice.
For the congressman, with the approval of the protest motion, Curitiba takes the lead in the national debate about the “machinations” of the Brazilian Justice, who “created crimes”.
“Digital militias are not a crime. […] Not even the Brazilian emperor had so many powers in his hands,” said Marcial, when analyzing that Alexandre de Moraes disrespects the Federal Constitution itself.
“There is no crime without a law. He created crimes, which is the competence of the Legislative.
Spreading fake news is not a crime. Anti-democratic acts are, yes, a crime, according to legislation from the [Military] Dictatorship, which the Constitution did not receive,” said Marcial.