The president of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), Edson Fachin, receives on this Tuesday the minister of Justice, Wellington César Lima e Silva, and the attorney general of the Union, Jorge Messias, in an audience added last-minute to the official agenda. The meeting is scheduled for 2:30 PM, at the court's headquarters, and occurs amid the crisis opened between the Court and the Federal Police after the decision of Minister André Mendonça to remove the corporation's director-general, Andrei Rodrigues.
The meeting takes place at a time when the Advocacy-General of the Union (AGU) prepares an appeal against Mendonça's decision in an attempt to keep Andrei in command of the PF. The meeting's agenda was not officially disclosed, but the context indicates that the subject should involve the institutional crisis.
Fachin, who has been criticized internally at the STF, has been seeking to act to manage the escalation of the crisis at the court. The tension increased after Mendonça ordered the removal of Andrei and the PF's Intelligence Director, Leandro Almada, within the scope of developments not specified in the article.
