Rodrigo Pacheco: We voted, we approved by a narrow majority, and, upon reaching the Chamber of Deputies, those who promoted it as the solution to limiting the powers of the Supreme Court fell silent, ceased to address this issue in the National Congress and insisted on an absolutely unviable thesis of impeachment of a Minister of the STF, following a very selective criterion of what generates adherence on social media, what generates applause on social media, failing to support the proposed constitutional amendment on single-judge rulings, which was voted on by me with the support of fifty-some Senators of the Republic.
Rodrigo Pacheco: Your Excellency had the courage at that moment to say that it was important and that it would matter little if it displeased the Judiciary.
And Your Excellency has that same courage when, from the height of your chair and your authority, you assert that the removal of a Minister of the STF, while there is no just cause, demonstrated fact, typicity, adequacy to the Law on Crimes of Responsibility and political viability, by a majority that is not 41 but 54 votes in this House...
Rodrigo Pacheco: Your Excellency demonstrates great civic courage in taking on this confrontation, because this does indeed generate for Your Excellency enormous wear and tear — as it also generated for me enormous wear — from a personal, electoral and political point of view.
Rodrigo Pacheco: This is civic and institutional courage that Your Excellency has, the same you have now, to set things straight regarding this shielding of Parliamentary mandates.