Luis Inacio Lula da Silva: And I'm proud, because it was the ministers I appointed who voted on the Stem Cell case, voted on Raposa Serra do Sol, voted on Civil Union. In other words, they were people who had a posture of dignity.
Luis Inacio Lula da Silva: I, sincerely, am convinced that trying to tamper with the Supreme Court to put a friend...
to place a comrade, to place a party member, is a backward step, it's a regression that the Brazilian Republic already knows.
Luis Inacio Lula da Silva: it knows very well, and I am against it. I think we can discuss the future if there is a new constituent assembly, maybe to have terms or not, maybe people would have greater limitations.
Luis Inacio Lula da Silva: But I think the Supreme Court has to be chosen by competence, by credentials and not by friendship.