© Reuters. Brazil’s president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Brazil’s Minister of Justice Flavio Dino have a look at one another throughout a press convention on the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, November 1, 2023. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photograph
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva mentioned on Monday he’ll appoint his Justice Minister, Flavio Dino, to a Supreme Court docket seat that has been vacant for the reason that retirement of Justice Rosa Weber in late September.
Lula additionally mentioned he would nominate Paulo Gonet because the nation’s new prosecutor basic.
Dino, 55, is Lula’s second appointment for Brazil’s high courtroom since he took workplace in January for his third non-consecutive time period as president. Earlier in June, he tapped his former protection lawyer Cristiano Zanin for one more Supreme Court docket seat.
Beforehand, former President Michel Temer appointed his personal justice minister, Alexandre de Moraes to the courtroom whereas Lula’s predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, picked Andre Mendonca for a seat.
Dino, whose nomination will now be voted on by the Senate, has been serving in Lula’s cupboard since January.
A former federal decide, he was a congressman for the Communist Social gathering of Brazil from 2007 to 2011 and later ruled the northeastern state of Maranhao from 2015 to 2022.
He joined the Brazilian Socialist Social gathering (PSB) in 2021 and was elected to the Senate final yr.
Chief Justice Luis Roberto Barroso praised Lula’s decide for the highest courtroom.
“Minister Dino was a very good federal judge … and a well-rated governor, so if this is the president’s choice, he will be most welcome at the Supreme Court,” Barroso informed reporters.
Lula additionally mentioned he would nominate Paulo Gonet because the nation’s new prosecutor basic, ending months of uncertainty for the reason that time period of Bolsonaro appointee Augusto Aras led to September.
The 62-year-old Gonet has been working as electoral prosecutor and helped safe Bolsonaro’s conviction earlier this yr in Brazil’s high electoral courtroom for his conduct throughout final yr’s slim election loss to Lula, which left the previous far-right president ineligible till 2030.
