PT's legal team will discuss Fux's impeachment on Saturday.

247 - A meeting of the PT's legal team is scheduled for this Saturday to discuss the possibility of impeaching Minister Luiz Fux of the Supreme Federal Court. The party's legal team intends to question the minister's conduct, who, in his ascent to the Supreme Court, sought out several party members, including defendants, promising to acquit them. According to the lawyers, Fux should recuse himself.

"He should not have participated in any conversations about the process, nor visited the defendants," says the coordinator of the party's legal sector in São Paulo, lawyer Marco Aurélio Carvalho. "Minister Joaquim Barbosa himself has already declared himself very concerned about collusion between lawyers and judges, and Fux's alleged collusion occurred while he was already a minister of the Superior Court of Justice," he states.

Wanted by 247Carvalho said that this is an initiative of a group of lawyers linked to the PT – some members, others not – but that they do not intend, at least at the moment, to file an impeachment complaint against Fux. "It's a reflection," he said. The lawyer made it clear that the action has no connection with the national leadership of the party and was not even discussed with the party president, Rui Falcão, or with the São Paulo leader, Edinho Silva.

In an interview with Folha, José Dirceu declared that he suffered "moral harassment" from Fux, who sought him out promising to acquit him while he was vying for a seat on the Supreme Court. Fux himself, also in an interview with Folha, admitted to lobbying figures such as Antonio Palocci and José Dirceu. After Dirceu's interview, Fux stated that he would not "engage in polemics with defendants." The complaint will be forwarded to Attorney General Roberto Gurgel. Should he decide to shelve it, he will be accused of prevarication.