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Dino: Moro needs to acknowledge his mistakes if he wants to be competitive in politics.

The governor of Maranhão corrects the former judge, who removed former president Lula from the political process to allow the rise of Bolsonaro.

Flávio Dino and Sérgio Moro (Photo: GOVMA | Reuters)

247 - The governor of Maranhão, Flávio Dino (PCdoB), responded to an interview with former Minister of Justice and Public Security Sérgio Moro in which the former judge demands self-criticism from the PT. 

"If the PT wants to be competitive, it has to acknowledge past mistakes," said Moro in an interview with GloboNews on Sunday night (5). "If Moro wants to be competitive, he has to acknowledge past and present mistakes," replied the head of the Maranhão Executive. 

In an interview with Globonews, the former minister avoided commenting on a possible presidential candidacy in 2022, but reiterated that there are "good names" to run in the elections. He did not mention any PT (Workers' Party) candidates.

"There's Luciano Huck, the governor of São Paulo, João Doria, the former minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta, who, incidentally, did a phenomenal job, he was a figure who rose to prominence during the crisis," he said, citing names that opposed President Jair Bolsonaro during the pandemic.

Moro convicted Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva without evidence in the Guarujá (SP) triplex apartment case, in order to remove the former president from the 2018 election. 

In May, federal congresswoman Carla Zambelli (PSL-SP) stated that Moro "He had a predilection for condemning the PT".

According to accusations from the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF-PR), Lula received an apartment as a bribe from OAS, but he never slept there nor had the key to the property. 

When filing the charges in 2016, prosecutor Henrique Pozzobon admitted that there was no "conclusive evidence" that the former president owned the apartment.

One of the reporter An article from the website Intercept Brasil, published on June 9th of last year, indicated that prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol doubted the existence of evidence.

From that month onward, The Intercept began publishing reports, some in partnership with other websites, indicating that Moro was acting as a kind of assistant prosecutor in the Lava Jato investigations. 

The former judge questioned, for example, the ability of a prosecutor to interrogate Lula and suggested adding information to the indictment against a defendant - Zwi Skornicki, representative of Keppel Fels, a shipyard that had contracts with Petrobras.