Bruno Dantas formally announces early departure from Brazil’s federal audit court

Bruno Dantas has formally asked to leave Brazil’s Federal Court of Accounts ahead of schedule, giving up a position he could otherwise have held until 2053, when he turns 75.

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to dedicate myself to new projects in the next stage of my professional life.

In a statement, Dantas said he wanted “to dedicate myself to new projects in the next stage of my professional life.” He plans to work in the private sector but has not said which project he will join.

Dantas said he was intellectually restless and wanted to pursue initiatives of national interest in strategic areas, continue his academic work and take part in public debate from a different position. People close to him, cited by Folha, said he had held talks with three companies, including a law firm operating in Brazil and the United States. Avibras, a defence-industry company bought by J&F, was also mentioned as an option.

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I am intellectually restless by temperament, and I always have been.

His departure opens a vacancy that the Senate can fill. One potential successor is former Senate president Rodrigo Pacheco of the Brazilian Socialist Party in Minas Gerais.

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I close this cycle with the calm of someone who fulfilled, with loyalty and dedication, every mandate entrusted to me.

Dantas took office at the audit court in 2014 through one of the three seats reserved for Senate appointments. Before that, he worked as a lawyer and Senate legislative consultant, and served on Brazil’s National Council of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and National Council of Justice. “I close this cycle with the calm of someone who fulfilled, with loyalty and dedication, every mandate entrusted to me,” he said, adding that institutions grow stronger when their officeholders know how to arrive and how to leave.

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Institutions grow stronger when their officeholders know how to arrive and how to leave.