STF justice upholds TCU audit of government accounts
Headquarters of the Federal Court of Accounts, in Brasília 
Minister Luiz Fux, from the Supreme Court (STF) rejected the motion filed by the government in a bid to suspend the examination of President Dilma Rousseff's 2014 government accounts, slated for Wednesday (Oct. 7) at the Federal Accounts Court (TCU).
With the ruling, the audit is to remain unchanged, and the dismissal of Justice Augusto Nardes should be considered at the beginning of the session during which the accounts are to be appraised.
Justice Luiz Fux
On the day before (6), Attorney-General Luís Inácio Adams had resorted to the Supreme Court as he understood that the top court may not conduct the audit without making a separate decision on the motion for the suspension of Justice Augusto Nardes, since Nardes disclosed beforehand he would vote for the rejection of the accounts.
Nardes deplored the government's stance and said “he will not feel threatened” by what he described as an attempt on the government's part to intimidate him. Adams responded by saying that TCU bylaws bans Supreme Court justices from uttering an opinion regarding cases about to be tried.
In the ruling, Fux says he finds no wrongdoing in Augusto Nardes's conduct. “Expressing yourself about matters related to a case does not necessarily imply an interest in any specific side,” he argued.
Translated by Fabrício Ferreira
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