Minister of the Supreme Court, John Otavio de Noronha (Roberto Jayme / ASICS / TEC / Handout)
The Inspector General of Elections, Minister João Otávio de Noronha, ended on Thursday his tenure at the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) with criticism of successive scandals of corruption and patronage in Congress. Noronha, who was rapporteur of one of the processes requesting investigations by irregularities in the campaign of the PT Dilma Rousseff for re-election, said in his farewell speech that the country goes through a series of crises, including the "disappearance of ethics."
"We are bombarded all the time by news of corruption as if Brazil were a mined land," said Noronha."The low value of the honest man, the growing dispute between the merchants of parliament, buyers multiplication of opinion and to vote leads us to question whether there is a need for courts continue blindfolded."
"We are living days of profound changes in the national scene. Changes that we did not anticipate nor we prevent and whose consequences not anticipated. We speak all the time in crisis, moral crisis at the trivialization of inversion of values (...) economic crisis and financial credited to globalization and the mismanagement of public funds, authenticity crisis caught the proliferation of scapegoats used to divert the eyes of the voters of government distortions, reference crises due to the disappearance of ethics, weakening of the state of crisis as opposed to the increasing attempt to manipulate democracy by Rancid Brazilian way ", the minister spoke.
The TSE plenary had at hand the resumption of the trial of an action that could lead to the president's mandate forfeiture Dilma Rousseff (PT) and Vice President Michel Temer (PMDB) for abuse of political and economic power. The process is a Impeachment Action Elective Mandate (AIME) by the PSDB after graduation Rousseff and Temer. The process was paralyzed by a request to have the minister Luciana Lossio. Noronha voted in the case and held that the action against Dilma should be pursued.The trial, however, was not taken up on Thursday.
