Marcos Rogério: So when it is said that the plea bargain is rejected because there is no crime being confessed, it seems to me that the report itself, either by mistake or for some other reason...
Marcos Rogério: What I wanted to say at this moment is that it is not for the Federal Senate, nor for the peers present here, to mount a defense of anyone.
Your Excellency made your own defense, with the conscience you have and with the knowledge of all the information that involves Your Excellency's conduct, but it is up to the institution of the Federal Senate to demand the truth, to demand that the investigation be deepened, to truly identify those who are involved in this plot, involved in this scandal.
Marcos Rogério: Now, another fact — and I will end my statement — is that this happens precisely at a moment after Your Excellency faced, within this Plenary of the Federal Senate, a nomination of someone who was presented to be a Minister of the STF.
Marcos Rogério: Your Excellency faced — and, for the first time in the history of the Senate, in the last 132 years, the Federal Senate rejected a nomination for Minister of the STF.