Lula ridicules Janot and brings up the Moreira Franco case, validated by the Supreme Court.
In a statement, former President Lula said that prosecutor Rodrigo Janot was hasty and clumsy in indicting him for obstruction of justice in the episode where deposed President Dilma Rousseff attempted to exercise her legitimate right to appoint him as minister. Lula also recalled that, after the coup, in an identical situation, the Supreme Federal Court upheld the appointment of Moreira Franco by Michel Temer. "This is the indictment presented by the Attorney General of the Republic to the Supreme Federal Court itself, perhaps in an attempt to generate some media noise to cover up questions about his actions in the twilight of his term," said Lula.
247 - In a statement, former President Lula said that prosecutor Rodrigo Janot was hasty and clumsy in accusing him of obstruction of justice, in the episode in which deposed President Dilma Rousseff tried to exercise her legitimate right to appoint him as minister.
Lula also recalled that, after the coup was consummated, in an identical situation, the Supreme Federal Court endorsed Michel Temer's appointment of Moreira Franco.
"This is the accusation presented by the Attorney General of the Republic to the Supreme Federal Court itself, perhaps in an attempt to generate some media noise to cover up questions about his actions in the twilight of his term," said Lula.
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Next, read Lula's statement regarding the accusation against him:
The Attorney General of the Republic, in a hasty and clumsy act of firing off accusations in the final days of his term, decided to consider that the appointment of former President Lula by then-President Dilma Rousseff to head her Civil House was not an exercise of her duties as President of the Republic in an attempt to prevent an unjustified impeachment process, but rather obstruction of justice.
It is important to remember that appointment as a minister does not interrupt legal proceedings, it only transfers them to the Supreme Federal Court. Ministers are investigated by the Attorney General of the Republic, at the time Rodrigo Janot himself. Thus, strangely, Janot considers that being investigated by himself, and judged by the Supreme Federal Court, without the possibility of appeal to other instances, would be, strangely, a form of obstruction of justice. Lula's appointment was blocked by a preliminary injunction but never discussed by the full Supreme Court.
Later, the court decided, when Moreira Franco was appointed minister, that there was no impediment to the act carried out by the President of the Republic.
This is the complaint filed by the Attorney General of the Republic with the Supreme Federal Court itself, perhaps in an attempt to generate some media buzz to cover up questions about his actions in the twilight of his term.