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67 statements · 1 politicians · August 26, 2025
Statements by Marcos Rogério. 67 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Monetary Policy, Judiciary, Religious Freedom / Free Expression, Criminal Procedure.
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Mr. President, Madam and Mr. Senators and those who follow us through the communication system of the Senate, I return to this podium to address a matter that I had already been addressing here last week.
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About: attract investors and stimulate an investment climate
Brazil is experiencing a sad moment with the worsening of a crisis that harms Brazilians and drags Brazil's credibility into a very bad place.
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About: attract investors and stimulate an investment climate
Brazil today is viewed both at home and abroad with great distrust.
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About: attract investors and stimulate an investment climate
This is an absolutely negative environment for investors, for those who will bring investments that will translate into wealth and the generation of jobs and income for Brazilians.
About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
Aside from all that, this week I followed, Senator Girão, two statements by magistrates of our Supreme Court debating what I have pointed to as the epicenter of Brazil's crisis at this moment.
About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
Because whereas before we had in the political sphere crises that intensified between the Executive and the Legislature, and in that field the Judiciary sought balance, no longer today.
Because political polarization remains, but the Judiciary, the highest court of the Judiciary, has assumed a leading role; not to resolve, not to pacify, not to be conciliatory or to arbitrate reason in an atmosphere of serenity, but has entered the debate, become part of it and now, in my view, is the epicenter of the national crisis.
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About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
So, I watched two Ministers of the Supreme Court debating the Brazilian Judiciary and the institution's crisis of confidence.
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About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
One pointed to the excesses of the Judiciary, which have led to a crisis of credibility and trust.
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About: protect freedom of expression
He said: 'a good judge [...] [must] be recognized by respect, not by fear; that his decisions generate social peace, not chaos [...] and insecurity.'
'The [democratic] rule of law [...] [requires] self-restraint of the [...] Judiciary.'
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About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
And he criticized, he continued, criticized judicial activism, warning that judicial decisions must respect the other Branches and the Federal Constitution, the basics of the basics: respect the Constitution.
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About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
See, someone having to warn the Judiciary, at its highest Court, that it must respect the Constitution.
This Court exists only because of the Federal Constitution.
He said that freedom of expression is essential to democracy and said: 'Freedom to speak without fear, without censorship.'
And his phrase: 'Without freedom of expression and opinion, there is no democracy.'
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About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
These are excerpts from the speech of Minister André Mendonça, at an event he attended in Rio de Janeiro.
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About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
At another moment, another Minister, Minister Alexandre de Moraes, upheld the independence of the Judiciary as the basis of respect and said: 'We have elections every two years.'
'Whoever wins takes office, whoever loses tries again in two years, or four years.'
'That is democracy. That is freedom with responsibility.'
'So we have a free press, we held free and periodic elections, and despite all the attacks, we maintained an independent Judiciary in Brazil.'
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About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
'Only an independent Judiciary is respected,' his words.
He also spoke about resistance to pressures and the courageous character of the Judiciary: 'The attacks can continue to be carried out from within or from outside [...].'
'A judge who does not resist pressure should change profession and go do something else with their life.'
'The Judiciary, it grows with pressure, [...] that is the judge's function: to judge and decide, to maintain democracy and the rule of law.'
And, to reaffirm the Judiciary's independence, he added: 'A submissive, cowardly judiciary, [...] that wants to make deals so that the country, momentarily, ceases to be [...] [disturbed], is not an independent Judiciary.'
'The Judiciary that is not independent has no right to be called a judiciary.'
'I can guarantee [...] in Brazil the Judiciary [...] and it is courageous.'
About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
I have brought here excerpts from two speeches by two magistrates of our Supreme Court, in a setting external to the STF, and I would say, and here I say, that the mere fact of observing Ministers of the highest Court holding external debates, and worse, even in internal meetings of the Supreme Court, opening sessions of political debates, addressing topics of politics and ideology, already shows us that we are experiencing a serious crisis in our Justice system.
About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
A judge's primary mission is to be an adjudicator and, in the mission of judging, one of the basic requirements is impartiality, the equidistance from the passions of politics, from circumstances, from the day-to-day of a society that may have differing views.
About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
But no: when one presumes to, when one mixes the role of adjudicator with that of political activist, that reveals to us a crisis difficult to repair.
About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
And I say: what we are living through in Brazil is the deepening of a crisis precisely because the Judiciary has left its rightful place.
I repeat: the serious crisis we face is because the Judiciary has left its place of origin, ceased to fulfill its constitutional mission to act as a political instance, with an ideological bias, with political passions.
About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
This has diminished the stature and importance of the Brazilian Judiciary.
They have begun to seek recognition through political results. Believe it or not: they seek recognition through political results, seek to assert themselves with political positions, ideological positions.
The further removed from the position of impartial adjudicator, the more worn-down, the more discredited, the more condemned the Brazilian Judiciary will be.
There is no way to command respect without first giving oneself respect, without first respecting one's own institutional, constitutional role.
About: protect freedom of expression
Today, Brazil lives under a new order of freedom.
About: protect freedom of expression
We have freedom, but it is surveilled freedom. Surveilled freedom is like telling a fish: 'You are free, but your new environment is out of the water.'
'You are a free fish, but your new environment, the new habitat of this freedom of yours, is out of the water.'
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