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22 statements · 1 politicians · July 8, 2025
Statements by Sérgio Moro. 22 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Party Membership, Legislative Process, Gambling & Credit Regulation, International Relations / Labor.
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Senators, Mr. President, first I would like to sincerely thank Your Excellency for the kind words regarding me.
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About: act as a responsible opposition in the National Congress
I believe this is the result of the work that has been carried out in the Senate, and much of it is also the product of the work of the União Brasil caucus, which has done the necessary opposition but has also often voted in the interest of the country, setting partisan differences aside.
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About: remove from the agenda the proposal to lower the age of criminal responsibility
I also take this opportunity to congratulate Your Excellency for taking that bill off the agenda today, because it is a complex bill, one that has many divergences, and I believe we should not evaluate this issue by deepening polarization, because there are reasonable arguments on both sides.
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About: authorize betting games
I recently positioned myself against it, but we cannot try to work with this logic of friend or foe, villain or hero, because there are many nuances to the question of whether to legalize gambling or not.
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About: discuss and vote on embassy nominations
On that point, today is an opportune day for the discussion and vote on these nominations to embassies abroad.
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About: approve embassy nominations
As a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, I voted for and approved the names that were nominated, Mr. President, and I am also voting here today in favor of these names, because I draw a very clear distinction between the Itamaraty, which is made up of a cadre of highly qualified professionals, serious people who will carry out this work in the embassies, and, nevertheless, I must register here my displeasure regarding the presidential diplomacy, the diplomacy of President Lula, which has been a disaster for our country.
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About: guarantee appointment and career progression of diplomats regardless of political disagreements
However, I know how to make that distinction: I will not leave a Brazilian embassy post vacant, nor will I block career progression—often a promotion or the placement of an ambassador at a necessary post abroad—because of my disagreements with the presidential diplomacy of the current Government.
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About: align foreign policy with the United States
This presidential diplomacy has been increasingly disastrous.
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About: strengthen and honor Mercosur agreements in relations with Argentina
Within the span of a week, we saw Lula visit Argentina and choose, instead of honoring Mercosur agreements, instead of seeking a harmonious relationship with his Argentine counterpart, President Milei, to carry out a childish provocation: he sought out the corrupt Cristina Kirchner, convicted by the Argentine judiciary, a person we all know to have a bad reputation, and went there to embrace her and even pose for ridiculous photos asking for her freedom.
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About: respect judicial decisions of regional partners and Mercosur agreements
A disrespect to the Argentine judiciary, a disrespect to President Milei, a disrespect to Mercosur.
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About: strengthen Brazil's participation in BRICS meetings
If we had been left with only that episode, it would already have been embarrassing enough, but in its wake we had the BRICS meeting here in Rio de Janeiro, depleted.
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About: participate in BRICS meetings
Vladimir Putin did not come. Okay, he has an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court and it would not, in fact, be prudent for him to attend, but the President of China did not come either, nor did other important leaders.
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About: condemn Russian aggression and recognize Russia's invasion of Ukraine
And from that BRICS meeting I did not see any concrete resolution toward a greater rapprochement among those countries; what we saw, moreover, in the statements made at the end of that BRICS meeting was a complete inversion of values, embodied in the point where the BRICS condemned an attack carried out by Ukraine on Russian territory, on civilian infrastructure, in which there were said to have been some civilian victims.
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About: condemn Russian aggression and recognize Russia's invasion of Ukraine
We are all against the war, and if that attack did, in fact, have that result, it deserves to be condemned, but the hypocrisy of that statement—and Senator Damares was with me there, in Kiev, to see the suffering of the Ukrainian people—the hypocrisy of that condemnation of Ukraine’s attack is highlighted by the complete omission of the context, a context in which Ukraine is the victim of an invasion by Russia; Russia is the aggressor country.
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About: condemn Russian attacks on civilian targets
And worse than that, every day we hear reports of attacks carried out by Russia with drones and missiles against civilian targets in Ukraine, resulting in civilian deaths.
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About: condemn Russian aggression and recognize Russia's invasion of Ukraine
So how can one justify that the BRICS could issue a statement with such a level of hypocrisy, as if Ukraine were the aggressor and not the other way around, as if Ukraine were responsible for hundreds of Russian civilian deaths, when it is exactly the opposite that is true, numbering in the thousands, due to the malicious, wanton attacks in a war of aggression waged by Russia against Ukraine?!
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About: adopt a coherent, non-electioneering diplomatic posture toward foreign leaders
To conclude the absurdities of the presidential diplomacy, we witnessed a hypocritical reaction by President Lula to President Trump’s statement regarding the proceedings brought here in Brazil against former President Bolsonaro: Lula reacting in a manner, in my view, aimed at electoral gain, criticizing President Trump for his interference in internal affairs, but failing to look in the mirror, failing to acknowledge that he himself, not long ago, in addition to promoting the rescue of the corrupt First Lady of Peru, carried out that embrace and that affront to the Argentine judiciary by arguing that Cristina Kirchner would be the victim of some kind of persecution.
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About: maintain commercial and diplomatic relations with the United States and China
Taken as a whole, Brazil has always been an ally of Western democracies; a country that, while allied to Western democracies, has always maintained important ties with countries in other regions of the world, including important commercial ties with China.
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About: align foreign policy with the United States
But President Lula’s new diplomacy is not one of neutrality; the new presidential diplomacy of President Lula is one of distancing Brazil from Western democracies and of an artificial and partisan antagonism toward the United States.
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About: strengthen diplomatic relations with the United States
We know that the PT and Lula have always been guided by anti‑American policy, as if the United States were the great villain of the century, and that they have this great fondness for dictatorships, such as the Cuban one...
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About: preserve Brazil's alignment with liberal traditions and Western democracies
(A bell rings.) ... but President Lula’s diplomacy does not give him the right to drag Brazil away from our liberal, democratic traditions and from those convergent with other Western democracies.
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About: approve embassy nominations
Were I irrational, I would vote against the nomination of all the ambassadors, but here I make the distinction, which is a necessary distinction, between the qualified corps of the Itamaraty and the tragedy that the current Government’s presidential diplomacy represents.
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