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Cury backs impeachment proceedings at Brazil’s Supreme Court and promises to review January 8 arrests and ‘retire Lula’

From Estadão · () Portuguese

Translated from Portuguese and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Brazilian presidential candidate Augusto Cury said the Senate should debate impeachment requests against Supreme Court justices and criticized Congress for being too weak before the court.
  • Cury proposed reducing the Supreme Court from 11 justices to nine and said he would review January 8-related cases individually if elected.
  • He said many people still imprisoned or subject to restrictions over the cases should be released, and called for a review of sentences he considers excessive.

Augusto Cury said the Brazilian Senate must debate impeachment requests against Supreme Federal Court ministers, arguing that no public official should be shielded from accountability. “No one should be protected. No one is above the law,” the Avante presidential candidate said during an interview with Jovem Pan.

Asked directly whether he supported impeachment proceedings, Cury replied: “There has to be impeachment. The Federal Senate has to discuss it. It has to discuss impeachment. How could it not? It has to take responsibility.”

No one should be protected. No one is above the law.

· Augusto CuryCury argued that public officials should not be shielded from impeachment or other consequences.

Cury also criticized Congress, saying the legislature has been “very weak” when facing the Supreme Court. In his assessment, the court sometimes “legislates, or at least flirts with legislating” on matters that should belong to Congress.

There has to be impeachment. The Federal Senate has to discuss it. It has to discuss impeachment. How could it not? It has to take responsibility.

· Augusto CuryHe directly endorsed Senate debate on impeachment requests against Supreme Court ministers.

The candidate repeated his proposal to reduce the number of Supreme Court justices from 11 to nine, citing the composition of the US Supreme Court as a reference. He said Brazil should “streamline” the court. Cury also said he expects Supreme Court President Edson Fachin to act with maximum independence, speed and justice in cases involving the institution.

On the proceedings linked to the January 8 attacks, Cury said that, if elected, he would request a report on all the cases during his first week in government and review them individually. He said that “no one who was wronged gets left behind” and argued that most people still imprisoned or subject to restrictions should be free. He also defended reviewing sentences that he considers excessive.

No one who was wronged gets left behind.

· Augusto CuryHe described his proposed review of cases linked to the January 8 attacks.
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Originally published by Estadão in Portuguese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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