Lula is in Pernambuco this Tuesday and attended a ceremony to expand the capacity of a refinery and visit a dam. He will head to Fortaleza at night. Weverton and the president had lunch on Monday at the Planalto Palace. ‘President Lula told me yesterday that as soon as he returns from his trip to the Northeast, probably Thursday or Friday, or at the beginning of the week, he will seek President Davi and arrange a meeting so they can dialogue and deliver the message. And from there establish a new schedule,’ said Weverton.
This afternoon, Alcolumbre postponed Messias’ hearing. The meeting at the Senate’s Committee on Constitution and Justice (CCJ) was scheduled for December 10, but the Planalto Palace has not yet completed the full procedure for it to happen. Alcolumbre says he was ‘surprised’ by the government, which he considered an ‘interference in the schedule’.
For Messias to be questioned, a presidential message with the name of the Attorney General of the Union needs to be sent. Without the necessary votes for approval, the Planalto’s strategy was precisely to postpone the document’s submission. Discussing the suspension of the previously disclosed calendar, Weverton referred to a statement he made last week when he complained that ‘they threw me a grenade without a pin’. ‘Yesterday, I didn’t respond to anyone because I was working to put the pin back in the grenade. Thanks to God, it worked, the pin was put back in the grenade, I found the pin. With President Davi’s gesture of canceling the calendar he disclosed with the CCJ president (Otto Alencar), this sets the conditions for us to start this work of the rapporteur and the work of the one appointed by the President of the Republic, Mr. Jorge Messias. The AGU minister has been visiting the Senate almost daily seeking support to ensure he is chosen for the Court. This Wednesday, he met with Senators Mecias de Jesus (Republicanos-RR), Oriovisto Guimarães (PSDB-PR), and Omar Aziz (PSD-MA). The Senate president signaled dissatisfaction with Messias’ choice and indicated working against his selection for the STF. Alcolumbre’s preferred name for the position, as well as that of most senators, was former Senate president Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG). Upset with Lula’s decision to appoint Messias, Alcolumbre acted to try to organize the voting on Messias’ choice so that there wouldn’t be time for the government’s base to have the majority to approve. Despite this, with Lula’s decision not to send the official message formalizing the appointment, the Senate president chose to postpone the assessment and cancel the previously scheduled calendar. Messias tries to meet with Alcolumbre and Pacheco to dispel the discomfort, but has not yet scheduled the meetings. In another sign of difficulties, a meeting between Messias and opposition senators was canceled. A meeting with PL and Novo senators was being organized by Senator Eudocia Caldas (PL-AL), but was suspended and is only expected to take place after the government sends the official message formalizing the appointment. Read the Senate president’s statement: ‘I hereby inform the Senators that this Presidency, together with the CCJ Presidency, had set December 3 and 10 to read the opinion, grant collective views, perform the questioning, and examine, in Plenary, the President’s nomination to the Supreme Federal Court. The definition of this calendar follows the pattern adopted in previous nominations and aimed to ensure compliance with this constitutional Senate task still in 2025, avoiding its postponement to next year. However, after the legislative dates were set, the Senate was surprised by the absence of the written message regarding the nomination, already published in the Official Gazette and widely announced. This omission, the sole responsibility of the Executive Branch, is serious and unprecedented. It is an interference in the questioning schedule, a prerogative of the Legislative Branch.’
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