Gilmar Mendes requests redistribution of the case file for the PSOL lawsuit.
The party wants to suspend the decision that overturned the decree.
247 - Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Gilmar Mendes requested on Friday (27) the redistribution of the case in which PSOL asked the Court to suspend the votes in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate that overturned the decree issued by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to increase the rates of the Tax on Financial Operations (IOF). The information is from Agência Brasil.
The minister was chosen electronically as the rapporteur for the case. However, Mendes said that there are other cases pending before the Supreme Court dealing with the same subject and under the rapporteurship of Alexandre de Moraes.
Given the situation, Mendes asked the president of the Court, Luís Roberto Barroso, to redistribute the case.
In the lawsuit, the party acknowledges that the Constitution authorizes Congress to suspend measures taken by the Executive branch. However, the party argues that suspension can only occur in cases where the President of the Republic has overstepped his regulatory power.
According to PSOL, the decree only altered the IOF tax rates, "there being no other changes."
