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1. Sérgio Moro0:00 · play in the video

   Mr. President, I would also like to record here my unreserved solidarity with Your Excellency, with the stance you took, and my indignation regarding the criticism.
2. Sérgio Moro0:10 · play in the video

   One of the things we hear most about the Federal Senate and its constitutional prerogatives is how the names that are often nominated to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) get through and are always approved.
3. Sérgio Moro0:25 · play in the video

   Historically, back in Floriano Peixoto, there was a rejection of Barata Ribeiro.
4. Sérgio Moro0:30 · play in the video

   This criticism is very recurrent. And suddenly there is a nomination and part of what I heard from public opinion in recent days criticized Your Excellency, as if we had to simply rubber-stamp the name put forward by the Executive.
5. Sérgio Moro0:46 · play in the video

   And there wasn't even an indication in that direction from Your Excellency, but merely the setting of a schedule.
6. Sérgio Moro0:53 · play in the video

   And when Your Excellency set that schedule, you began to be criticized, as if it were an obligation for this Chamber to proceed differently or as if it were absolutely necessary that we approve that name.
7. Sérgio Moro1:07 · play in the video

   No. It is the President's prerogative to nominate whoever he believes he should nominate, within the constitutional requirements, and it is the Senate's prerogative to approve or not approve that name, by conducting a confirmation hearing that, in my view, must be rigorous, which should examine the individual's curriculum vitae, his legal knowledge and his legal thinking, because legal thinking is not mathematics; it is not linear.
8. Sérgio Moro1:35 · play in the video

   It is not simply about administering a knowledge test here, but rather about conducting questioning to ask the candidate what he thinks about relevant legal issues, including constitutional ones.
9. Sérgio Moro1:47 · play in the video

   So I do not understand the criticisms made last week of Your Excellency to the effect that we should simply say "amen" to the Executive's choices.
10. Sérgio Moro1:59 · play in the video

    And I do not even know what the outcome will be, whether this nomination will actually take place, how the confirmation hearing will be conducted, whether it will be approved or not.
11. Sérgio Moro2:11 · play in the video

    Now, criticizing the Senate and criticizing the Presidency of the Senate for the exercise of the Senate's constitutional prerogatives, in my view, is absurd, not least because, generally, the criticism runs the other way — that the Senate does not conduct the confirmation hearing appropriately and always approves the nominees.
12. Sérgio Moro2:32 · play in the video

    And when there is a signal of "We will hold a rigorous hearing; it may be approved, it may, eventually, be rejected," Your Excellency is criticized.
13. Sérgio Moro2:41 · play in the video

    Moreover, with the planting in the press of defamatory information regarding Your Excellency, which everyone here knows you never treated this matter from that perspective, that you are only defending here the prerogative of the Senate and its independence with respect to the Executive Branch.
14. Sérgio Moro3:00 · play in the video

    What does public opinion want? That the Senate be handed over to the Presidency of the Republic?
15. Sérgio Moro3:06 · play in the video

    That every bill submitted here be approved?
16. Sérgio Moro3:10 · play in the video

    That every nominee forwarded here be approved?
17. Sérgio Moro3:14 · play in the video

    Then there would be no need for the Senate. I wish to record my solidarity with the spirit of hauteur and independence with which Your Excellency conducted yourself in this case, and to regret the fact that this nomination — the sending of the presidential message — was not made.
18. Sérgio Moro3:33 · play in the video

    That, indeed, is a reprehensible maneuver by the President of the Republic to prevent the hearing from taking place.
19. Sérgio Moro3:41 · play in the video

    I hope it will be submitted one day so that we may examine it.
20. Sérgio Moro3:47 · play in the video

    Now, if this House exercises its prerogatives and approves the name or rejects it, it must be respected.
21. Sérgio Moro3:54 · play in the video

    This type of criticism cannot be tolerated, and the criticism that was aimed at Your Excellency is, at bottom, criticism aimed at this entire House, including the tradition, very well represented by the bust of Ruy Barbosa that stands above all of us here in this House. That is all, Mr. President.