Sérgio Moro: The Parliamentarian must carry out his mandate with tranquility, but he cannot be placed above the law.
Sérgio Moro: Now, I do not see it as unreasonable, Senator Confúcio, for us to consider procedural guarantees for material immunity, and here in relation to specific imputations, such as, for example, imputations of crimes against honor, because there, indeed, protecting the Parliamentarian against disrespect for material immunity is something that is justified.
Let's think of solutions, whether it is possible to use this PEC to, eventually, make deep changes that make clear a double standard: to prohibit, yes, the criminalization of a Parliamentarian's opinion, but never to open a door to impunity for common crimes.
Sérgio Moro: Perhaps this is a balanced solution that, in some way, protects the exercise of parliamentary activity at this moment when, worldwide — to tell the truth — there is a certain emptying out, there is a certain excessive restriction of fundamental liberties — these fundamental liberties are essential to democracy — but, at the same time, without weakening even by a millimeter the fight against crime and without strengthening, therefore, any protection in relation to crimes of another nature, common crimes, such as corruption, money laundering or drug trafficking.
Sérgio Moro: For those, the regime we have in the current Constitution, in the current constitutional text, in my view, is already sufficient.