Merval already admits Moro's bias and sees the possibility of Lula running for office in 2022.
Columnist Merval Pereira, from the newspaper O Globo, already foresees the possibility that Sergio Moro will be declared biased, which would open the possibility of Lula's candidacy. He also points to the risk that the former judge will be declared ineligible.
247 - Globo, which openly campaigned for the coup against former President Dilma Rousseff and for the political imprisonment of former President Lula, is now admitting the possibility that one of its candidates in 2022, former judge Sérgio Moro, might be excluded from the presidential race. Moreover, Globo is beginning to consider the possibility of Lula's presidential candidacy in 2022 if Moro is indeed declared biased and unbiased by the Supreme Federal Court. This is clear in... column by Merval Pereira, this Thursday.
"The 2022 presidential election could be the most interesting in recent times, at least in terms of political sociology. Former judge Sérgio Moro, who convicted Lula, the former president, who has managed to clear his name of 'corruption,' and President Bolsonaro, Moro's circumstantial adversary and Lula's sworn enemy, could face off at the polls," says the journalist. "The fate of the political-electoral puzzle that will define the 2022 presidential race, which is already underway, rests in the hands of the Supreme Federal Court. The situation is more than rhetorical; it's real, starting with the increasingly concrete possibility that former judge Sérgio Moro will be considered biased in the trials in which former president Lula was convicted," admits Merval.
The columnist for Globo clearly states that Moro acted to harm the former president. "Moro released Palocci's testimony days before the first round of the 2018 presidential election in order to harm Lula, thus favoring Bolsonaro, for whom he would later become Minister of Justice. If he is deemed biased by the Second Panel, the Guarujá triplex case, the only one in which Moro was responsible for convicting the Workers' Party member, will be annulled, which will likely lead to the annulment of two other cases: the Atibaia ranch case, in which Lula was convicted by Judge Gabriela Hardt, and the Lula Institute case, which is currently underway with Judge Luiz Antonio Bonat," he admits.
Merval also considers the risk that Moro may not be able to run for office. "Since Brazil is not for amateurs, as Tom Jobim warned, there is another possibility. Former judge Sérgio Moro could be considered ineligible if the idea of creating a quarantine period for members of the Judiciary takes hold, and the interpretation that electoral rules can be retroactive prevails, making him a kind of 'corrupt politician,' and Lula is rehabilitated by the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court."