Gilmar has a meeting with the Army commander.
Supreme Court Justice Gilmar Mendes met with the Army commander, General Edson Leal Pujol. The meeting took place amidst protests by Bolsonaro supporters calling for military intervention in the country.
247 - Supreme Court Justice Gilmar Mendes met last Wednesday (10) with the Army commander, General Edson Leal Pujol. According to information from newspaper Valor EconômicoThe minister was received by Pujol and his chief of staff, General Fábio Benvenutti Castro, in Brasília (DF).
Earlier this month, Gilmar defended the constitutional role of the Armed Forces, amid protests by supporters of Jair Bolsonaro calling for military intervention in the country.
"The idea that the armed forces can shut down the Supreme Court or Congress is incompatible with the 1988 Constitution. The army is not a militia. #NeverAgainToDictatorship," he wrote on Twitter.