The Supreme Court will rule on Janot's impartiality next Wednesday.
The appeal in which Michel Temer's defense requests the disqualification of the Attorney General of the Republic, Rodrigo Janot, was sent to the plenary of the Supreme Federal Court by Minister Edson Fachin; the STF plenary will judge the appeal on Wednesday (13); in his decision, Fachin understood that there were no indications of partiality on the part of the prosecutor during the investigations.
Brazil Agency - Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Edson Fachin today (8) sent to the Court's plenary the appeal in which Michel Temer's defense requests the disqualification of the Attorney General of the Republic, Rodrigo Janot, from acting in an investigation related to the president that is being processed in the Court. The case will be judged on Wednesday (13).
The minister's decision responds to an appeal filed last week by lawyer Antônio Cláudio Mariz de Oliveira, representing Temer. The lawyer reaffirms that, in cases involving the president, Janot exceeds the "constitutional and legal limits inherent to the office he holds."
On Wednesday (30), when denying a request to disqualify Janot, Fachin understood that there were no indications of bias on the part of the prosecutor during the investigations.
"In an attempt to implicate the President of the Republic in uncertain and undetermined events, a series of 'certainties' were put forward by the Head of State." parquet [The Public Prosecutor's Office] which made it extremely difficult to conduct an impartial analysis free from the influences that have only now come to light, and it is certain that all the context now summarized, but extensively detailed in the initial statement, clearly demonstrates the bias of Dr. Rodrigo Janot in conducting cases involving the appellant [Temer] within the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office," the defense argues.
Suspension of complaint
On Wednesday (13), Fachin is also expected to bring to trial another request in which Temer's defense seeks to suspend any potential charges against the president to be filed by the Attorney General of the Republic, Rodrigo Janot. In the petition, the lawyers also request the suspension of any requests for investigation into the president.