Brazil: more than 5,000 lawyers speak out against Zanin’s appointment to the STF

By Cristyan Costa

A group of 5,500 lawyers, members of the Brazilian Right Lawyers Movement, published a manifesto against the appointment of Cristiano Zanin as Justice of the Federal Supreme Court (STF).

Revista Oeste obtained the 124-page document.

“The appointment to the STF collides with Zanin’s ineluctable proximity to the president of the country, subtracting the indispensable impartiality to the mister’s performance and placing him in a position of perennial suspicion,” the signatories argued.

Further, the lawyers add that the eventual appointment of Zanin will not be technical.

“To accept the mere restrictive argument that Zanin has attributes that give him notable legal knowledge and an unblemished reputation, at least for a large part of the population, is, at the very least, an affront to the morality of the Republic,” the group noted.

“The Brazilian Right Lawyers Movement requests the Senate to reject the possible nomination of the personal lawyer of the current president of the Republic, watching over the morality and integrity of the Judiciary and Brazilian institutions, subsequently approving someone who, undoubtedly, is devoid of personal inclinations with his indicator and, beyond any doubt, has a real commitment to the nation,” the group requested.

With information from Revista Oeste