Tag: Gilmar Mendes

• Wednesday, June 12th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Lava Jato leaks: Calls for Minister Moro to resign

  

  Brazil’s Justice Minister Sergio Moro faced intense pressure on Tuesday after leaked personal messages raised doubts about his impartiality as the judge overseeing landmark corruption cases, with an influential newspaper calling on him to resign.

• Thursday, January 11th 2018 - 10:19 UTC

  Brazil looks into the past to implement legislation punishing political “fake news”

  

  Brazil is the latest country to unveil plans to censor the Internet, following in the footsteps of Germany, France, and other European countries. Earlier this week the country’s official Twitter account for the Federal Police, (equivalent to FBI), announced efforts to “punish” anyone who disseminates political content it deems “false.” The federal government of Brazil is extending its ability to enforce regulation and control of its sector of the Internet.

• Wednesday, December 13th 2017 - 21:50 UTC

  OAS observers will be deployed in Brazil's general election of October 2018

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Brazil signed the Procedural Agreement for the first deployment of an Electoral Observation Mission to Brazil.

• Tuesday, October 10th 2017 - 06:07 UTC

  Public funds to finance election campaigns to help fight corruption, “insufficient”

  

  A political campaign fund set up in Brazil with public money to help fight corruption is not big enough for the country’s 2018 general election, the head of the country’s top electoral court said. Brazil’s scandal-plagued political class voted to establish the 1.7 billion Reais (US$542 million) fund to finance election campaigns after corporate donations were banned in the wake of the country’s biggest ever corruption scandal.

• Saturday, June 10th 2017 - 08:51 UTC

  Temer wins the day with a divided vote. “The system needs stability” was the decisive argument

  

  Brazil's top electoral court gave embattled President Michel Temer a big victory late Friday, voting to reject allegations of campaign finance violations that could have removed him from office. After four days of deliberations, judges voted 4-3 in a case that many viewed as a measure of whether Temer could remain in office amid a ballooning corruption scandal and single-digit popularity.

• Friday, June 9th 2017 - 21:44 UTC

  Strong indications that president Temer will survive the Electoral Court case and remain in office

  

  Brazil's top electoral court on Thursday excluded testimony of engineering company executives from an illegal campaign funding trial against President Michel Temer, a move that suggested it would throw out a case that had threatened to unseat him.

• Thursday, June 8th 2017 - 10:56 UTC

  Brazilian Electoral Tribunal adds sessions to speed a decision on president Temer's case

  

  The head of Brazil´s Superior Electoral Tribunal, TSE, Justice Gilmar Mendes added extraordinary sessions, including next Saturday, to continue considering the alleged political and economic abuse committed by the winning ticket of the 2014 elections, when Dilma Rousseff was reelected with Michel Temer as vice-president. According to court sources the decision to add sessions this week received unanimous support from his six co-Judges.

• Thursday, March 30th 2017 - 06:25 UTC

  Brazil's Temer job on the line: Electoral Court could force him out of office on campaign financing

  

  Brazilian President Michel Temer since taking office, in May 2016, has faced one crisis after the other, and now the man who rose to power thanks to an impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff, faces himself the threat of removal from office.

• Monday, December 19th 2016 - 08:04 UTC

  Another major clash between Brazil's Supreme Court and Congress in the making

  

  Another major clash between Brazil's Supreme Court and Congress in the making. Justice Luiz Fux ruled to return the anti-corruption bill back to its initial stages in the Lower House, despite the fact the fill had already reached Senate and was preparing to put the bill to a vote.

• Sunday, October 18th 2015 - 07:27 UTC

  Rousseff's reelection campaign alleged irregularities, investigated by federal police

  

  Brazil's federal police have opened a preliminary investigation into alleged irregularities in President Dilma Rousseff's re-election campaign last year. According to the media office of the federal police, the probe was opened on 7 October, following a decision by Justice Gilmar Mendes from the Superior Electoral Court to look into allegations of wrongdoing by the Rousseff campaign.