Sérgio Moro: It is important, in a democracy, to keep channels open for citizens.
Sérgio Moro: I hope that, in the assessment of this injunction by the Plenary of the Senate, the 1950 Impeachment Law can be fully restored, also with respect to other aspects, such as the quorum necessary for the admissibility of an impeachment request against a Supreme Court Justice, which in the law is a simple majority, and yet the injunction creatively transformed it into a qualified two-thirds quorum, which has no normative support in our Constitution.
If there is dissatisfaction with the quorum provided in the law, change the law, but you cannot do that by judicial shortcuts, much less by single-judge decisions.
Sérgio Moro: So, let us await the developments, remembering that we also have here the impeachment bill, which should remain for next year, as was discussed today in the CCJ, but in which we Senators will be able to discuss this matter in greater depth.
Sérgio Moro: And I say this because there is no eagerness to seek to impeach or punish anyone, but we need to preserve an instrument of citizenship and of accountability, of citizens' oversight over public authorities.