Gone was the biggest rejection of PGR in the Senate since 1989.

The federal senate Approved this Wednesday 12th 45 votes in favor, 26 votes againstreappointment of Paulo Gone He assumes the position of Attorney General of the Republic. This result represents the biggest rejection of a PGR candidate since 1989, the start of the historic post-redemocratization series. In the previous vote in 2023, Gone received 65 votes in favor and 11 votes against.

Until then, the most vetoed attorney general in the Senate was Gerardo Brindeiloappointed by the government Fernando Enrique Cardoso. In his reelection bid in 2001, Brindeiro received 18 votes against and 55 votes in favor. He again expressed resistance in 1999, when he was reelected with 61 votes in favor and 11 against.

His next significant event was his reappointment. Rodrigo Gianottoappointed in 2015 by then-President Dilma Rousseff. At that time, Jeanneau received 59 votes in favor and 12 votes against.

Gone’s decline in approval ratings came in the wake of the trial of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) for an attempted coup, in which opposition senators accused the attorney general’s office of “colluding” with the attorney general. federal supreme court (STF).

At the hearing of the Constitutional and Judiciary Committee (CCJ), Mr. Gone It cited the PGR’s role in investigating attacks on democracies, fraud against the INSS, organized crime and human trafficking..

Opposition politicians questioned his stance on issues such as pardoning those convicted in the January 8 incident, calling for the impeachment of STF ministers, and the duration of a fake news investigation.

“It’s up to Congress to decide whether to approve the pardon or not, but from a legal perspective there are arguments,” Gone said at the hearing, without providing details on what arguments there would be.