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SAIBA QUEM É MESSIAS: O INDICADO AO STF POR LULA
83 statements · 1 politicians · April 28, 2026 · 6 min
Statements by Nikolas Ferreira. 83 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Judicial reform, Transparency & Investigation, Special Jurisdiction / Special Court, Executive Action & Promises.
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83 statementsFull transcript of the video. Statements the analysis classified carry topic and stance.
- Neutral
About: appoint a nominee to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal)
The Senate will decide tomorrow who will be the next Justice of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal).
- Neutral
About: nominate ministers to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) who support limiting the Court's role to constitutional functions
The one nominated by Lula is Jorge Messias, better known as Bessias.
- Neutral
About: investigate wiretap leak
The name surfaced when a wiretap from Lava Jato was leaked.
- Neutral
About: investigate possible irregularities involving ministers of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal)
In the recording, Dilma told Lula that she had sent Bessias to deliver the papers to appoint him as a Justice.
- Against
About: grant privileged forum to ex-presidents
A maneuver to give Lula privileged jurisdiction.
- Against
About: shield politicians from investigations
and to shield him from the investigations that would lead to his imprisonment.
- Against
About: appoint a nominee to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal)
It's another friend of Lula being nominated to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal).
- Ambiguous
About: maintain their government program
Do you remember what Lula promised during the campaign?
- Against
About: appoint a nominee to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal)
So, today he already has two friends on the court, one of whom was his former lawyer.
About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
In other words, a court that should safeguard the Constitution and be impartial has become a marketplace for political deals.
But anyway, what do you have to do with all this, right?
Everything.
- Against
About: restrict STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) to abstract constitutional matters
In recent years, the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) stopped judging only laws and began to decide on pillars of society, such as criminal law, family, faith, property, freedom of expression and even abortion.
- Against
About: appoint a nominee to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal)
So the senators who have not yet publicly rejected the nomination will have to admit, before Brazil, that they are putting in the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) a person with this record.
- Neutral
About: express personal opposition to abortion
Messias, who says he is a Christian, declares himself evangelical and told religious leaders that he is opposed to abortion.
- Neutral
About: declare the ban on fetal systole unconstitutional
But when the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) summoned him to comment on the decision of the Federal Medical Council that prohibited fetal systole in pregnancies over 22 weeks, he signed an opinion saying that this prohibition was unconstitutional.
Fetal systole, just so you understand, is a procedure in which a substance is injected into the baby's heart to cause its death before birth.
At that stage, the baby already has real chances of surviving outside the uterus.
The Council had prohibited the procedure precisely because the baby could be born alive and be placed for adoption.
This method is prohibited even in countries that allow the death penalty.
- Against
About: maintain ban on fetal systole
But how can someone who says they are against abortion sign a legal opinion that makes its practice easier?
About: publish AGU payments
You will have to admit that you are supporting a person who kept his own payments secret.
- Neutral
About: make transparency a government priority
The Lula government made transparency a banner issue.
- Neutral
About: revoke secrecy in public bodies
It promised to revoke secrecy orders.
- Neutral
About: publish AGU payments
While that discourse was repeated, the AGU, under Messias's command, stopped publishing for eight months how much each member of the institution received in fees.
- Neutral
About: publish AGU payments
A piece of information that any citizen could consult every month on the transparency portal simply disappeared.
- Neutral
About: publish AGU payments
During that period, the payments totaled 2.5 billion.
The justification?
Technical incompatibility between systems.
Eight months of technical problems.
- Neutral
About: publish information after press inquiries
And the data were only republished after the press raised questions.
About: investigate fraud against retirees involving unions
You will also have to admit that you are supporting a person who failed to investigate the union of Lula's brother amid a billion‑dollar fraud against retirees.
- Neutral
About: investigate irregular deductions from retirees
Retirees who had money deducted without authorization.
Billions of reais taken from people who worked their entire lives.
- Neutral
About: investigate organizations identified by an internal report
In September 2024, an internal report reached the top of the AGU, listing nine organizations suspected of irregular deductions.
- Neutral
About: investigate conflicts of interest involving relatives of officials
Among them, the union whose vice‑president is Frei Chico, the brother of President Lula.
About: apply judicial measures to all organizations identified in reports
When Messias went to court to request the freezing of assets, he left out six of the nine named by the report itself.
Guess who was left off the list?
Exactly.
The union of Lula's brother.
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