Toffoli defends "anti-Moro" legislation and gains Maia's support.
The President of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) argued that Congress should establish an eight-year bar for judges who decide to leave the judiciary and run for elections.
Forum Magazine - The president of the Supreme Federal Court, Dias Toffoli, defended this Wednesday (29) that the National Congress define an 8-year impediment for judges who decide to leave the judiciary and run for elections.
"They had to include in the Ineligibility Law the ineligibility of magistrates and members of the Public Prosecutor's Office for at least 8 years," said Toffoli during a meeting of the National Council of Justice.
According to the minister, this measure "would prevent the use of the judiciary and the impartial power of the judge to engage in demagoguery, to appear before public opinion and then to run for office." "Anyone who wants to be a candidate has to leave the judiciary, has to leave the Public Prosecutor's Office, and there must be a period of ineligibility," he added.
The "quarantine" could affect the plans of former federal judge and former minister Sérgio Moro to run in the 2022 presidential elections and was rejected by the Brazilian Association of Magistrates (AMB). "Projects of this nature violate the principle of equality and infringe upon the political rights of members of the Judiciary. A disproportionate affront to the fundamental right of magistrates to exercise their citizenship," the organization stated.
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