Your swimming pool is full of rats.
Rodrigo Janot is facing a government that is an open sewer, riddled with more than a dozen corrupt ministers. He is witnessing a coup carried out in broad daylight by a corrupt scheme led by the Speaker of the House, Eduardo Cunha, to try to obstruct the investigations, as became clear in the recordings of Sérgio Machado. But Janot, so far, seems to only see Lula.
The Public Prosecutor's Office and the Supreme Federal Court are in a position, in relation to the coup in the Senate that installed Michel Temer, very similar to the position they held in relation to Eduardo Cunha, at the time when the removal of President Dilma was being orchestrated in the Chamber of Deputies.
Attorney General Rodrigo Janot has become the Sérgio Moro of the presidential palace, behaving as if he were an office boy for the elite.
Rodrigo Janot and the Supreme Court are facing a government that is a veritable open sewer, riddled with more than a dozen corrupt ministers, and nothing happens to them.
They are witnessing a coup carried out in broad daylight by a corrupt scheme led by the Speaker of the House, Eduardo Cunha, to try to block the investigations, as became clear in the recordings of Sérgio Machado.
Brazil is facing an international embarrassment, viewed with indignation and perplexity by Brazilians and the world alike, without the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Supreme Court confronting the horde of criminals and removing them from public life.
Surely this situation would be unthinkable in nations with consolidated democracies and citizenship, such as the United States and European countries. Surely all those investigated would have been removed from public life.
But Janot, so far, seems to only see Lula. He asked Minister Teori Zavascki to send Judge Sérgio Moro the case concerning Delcídio Amaral's plea bargain, in which Lula is irresponsibly mentioned by the former senator, as if the mention of a crook against the former president were more important than the dozen ministers of the interim government who brazenly hold Brazil hostage to organized crime.
Interestingly, Moro illegally recorded a conversation that the former president had with President Dilma, which was later leaked to Rede Globo, days before the impeachment vote in the Chamber of Deputies.
In a country with a decent judiciary, Sérgio Moro would have gone to jail. Here he is protected, perhaps because he is a magistrate who persecutes the left. Furthermore, the National Council of Justice ordered the dismissal of five requests to investigate his misconduct.
The problem is that, in digging into the swamp of corruption, the Attorney General's Office and the Supreme Court have stumbled upon leads that have reached the top of the PMDB party, with a very high probability of reaching Michel Temer and the ministers who are part of the core support for the interim government.
Across the avenue, in the National Congress, red lights flash next to Eduardo Cunha and Renan Calheiros. In other words, the government is built on rotten foundations. It could implode at any moment. If they get to Michel Temer, the government will collapse.
Upon digging deeper, they also reached the top of the PSDB party and Aécio Neves, one of the men behind the coup, who seems to be protected, in the investigations, by a certain yellow veil from the judicial institutions and auxiliary bodies (MPF/PF), while he serves as a conspirator.
However, the seriousness of the accusations against him has put the judiciary in a difficult position that it can no longer manage. Aécio, who had microphones and cameras at his disposal at any moment, disappeared from the spotlight.
Former President Lula's life has already been turned upside down and nothing has been found. But, since the plan is to block his possible candidacy for President of the Republic, the new panorama that has unfolded in the investigations seems to be of no interest to the Public Prosecutor's Office or the Supreme Court.
* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.
