The president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT, left), will have the right to appoint two judges to the STF (Federal Supreme Court). The vacancies will be opened by the retirement of the President of the Court, Rosa Weber and Ricardo Lewandowski.
Thus, the STF will remain indefinitely in the hands of the left, in stark contrast to the US where it is in the hands of the right.
While the (left) Biden government has no allies in the judiciary, Lula da Silva knows, as he has for the past four years, that the STF will support his proposals every time.
Both will retire in 2023. Lewandowski on May 11 and Weber on October 2. On these dates they will turn 75, the mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court judges.
President Jair Bolsonaro (PL, right) and Lula faced each other in the second round of the dispute for the Presidential Palace on Sunday (October 30, 2022).
In the current composition of the STF, 3 ministers were appointed by Lula: Dias Toffoli (2009), Cármen Lúcia and Ricardo Lewandowski (2006). Bolsonaro, on the other hand, nominated Nunes Marques (2020) and André Mendonça (2021).
After Lewandowski and Weber, the next minister to retire is Luiz Fux, in 2028. Former President Dilma Rousseff (PT) appointed him to the Court in 2011.
Marques and Mendonça are the youngest ministers of the current composition of the STF. Consequently, there are also those who will stay longer out of the 11 who make up the Court today. Both will retire in 2047.
