Under pressure from the UN decision, Barroso says Brazil is undergoing a 'refounding' process.
While all polls show that the Brazilian people want Lula as president and the UN demands that his political rights be upheld, Minister Luis Roberto Barroso, rapporteur for Lula's candidacy at the Superior Electoral Court, said that Brazil is undergoing a "refounding"; at an event of the association of Federal Police delegates, Barroso described the country, which changes its jurisprudence according to the defendant, as a "crony state".
247 - While all polls show that the Brazilian people want Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president and the UN Human Rights Committee demands that his political rights be upheld, Minister Luis Roberto Barroso, rapporteur for Lula's candidacy at the Superior Electoral Court, said that Brazil is undergoing a "refounding."
"I think we are living through a moment of refounding. A country that has found itself and is trying to change its destiny," said Barroso, during a lecture at an event of the National Association of Federal Police Delegates (ADPF), in Salvador.
Minister Barroso, who has emphatically defended the idea that international treaties signed by Brazil have supralegal effect, described as a "crony state" the country that changes its jurisprudence according to the defendant.
"There is no reason to change jurisprudence. A country that changes its jurisprudence based on the defendant is not a democratic state governed by the rule of law, but a crony state," Barroso told an audience of about 800 people spread across three movie theaters.
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