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SAIBA QUEM É MESSIAS: O INDICADO AO STF POR LULA
49 classified statements · 1 politicians · April 28, 2026 · 6 min
Statements by Nikolas Ferreira. 49 excerpts classified by topic and stance. Topics: Judicial reform, Transparency & Investigation, Special Jurisdiction / Special Court, Executive Action & Promises.
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Nikolas Ferreira
0:00
About: appoint a nominee to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal)
The Senate will decide tomorrow who will be the next Justice of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal).
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence States that the Senate will decide who will be a minister of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal).
Nikolas Ferreira
0:03
About: nominate ministers to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) who support limiting the Court's role to constitutional functions
The one nominated by Lula is Jorge Messias, better known as Bessias.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Only identifies who the nominee is.
Nikolas Ferreira
0:07
About: investigate wiretap leak
The name surfaced when a wiretap from Lava Jato was leaked.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Reports that the name emerged after a leaked wiretap.
Nikolas Ferreira
0:10
About: investigate possible irregularities involving ministers of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal)
In the recording, Dilma told Lula that she had sent Bessias to deliver the papers to appoint him as a Justice.
Why it was classified this way · 68% confidence Reports a recording about coordination for the appointment.
Nikolas Ferreira
0:25
About: grant privileged forum to ex-presidents
A maneuver to give Lula privileged jurisdiction.
Why it was classified this way · 72% confidence Calls the appointment a 'manobra' to give privileged forum.
Nikolas Ferreira
0:28
About: shield politicians from investigations
and to shield him from the investigations that would lead to his imprisonment.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence States that the maneuver would seek to 'blindá-lo das investigações'.
Nikolas Ferreira
0:31
About: appoint a nominee to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal)
It's another friend of Lula being nominated to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal).
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Criticizes the appointment as favoritism: 'mais um amigo do Lula'.
Nikolas Ferreira
0:33
About: maintain their government program
Do you remember what Lula promised during the campaign?
Why it was classified this way · 50% confidence Rhetorical question about campaign promises, without a clear position.
Nikolas Ferreira
0:41
About: appoint a nominee to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal)
So, today he already has two friends on the court, one of whom was his former lawyer.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Complains that there are already two of the president's friends on the court.
Nikolas Ferreira
0:46
About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
In other words, a court that should safeguard the Constitution and be impartial has become a marketplace for political deals.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence States that the court 'virou balcão de negócios políticos'.
Nikolas Ferreira
0:54
About: restrict STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) to abstract constitutional matters
In recent years, the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) stopped judging only laws and began to decide on pillars of society, such as criminal law, family, faith, property, freedom of expression and even abortion.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Says that the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) began deciding the pillars of society.
Nikolas Ferreira
1:04
About: appoint a nominee to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal)
So the senators who have not yet publicly rejected the nomination will have to admit, before Brazil, that they are putting in the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) a person with this record.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Warns that senators will have to take responsibility for supporting a candidate with a 'histórico'.
Nikolas Ferreira
1:11
About: express personal opposition to abortion
Messias, who says he is a Christian, declares himself evangelical and told religious leaders that he is opposed to abortion.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Reports that the nominee declared himself evangelical and opposed to abortion.
Nikolas Ferreira
1:17
About: declare the ban on fetal systole unconstitutional
But when the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) summoned him to comment on the decision of the Federal Medical Council that prohibited fetal systole in pregnancies over 22 weeks, he signed an opinion saying that this prohibition was unconstitutional.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Reports that he signed an opinion considering the prohibition unconstitutional.
Nikolas Ferreira
1:51
About: maintain ban on fetal systole
But how can someone who says they are against abortion sign a legal opinion that makes its practice easier?
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Rhetorical question criticizing the opinion that 'facilitou' the procedure.
Nikolas Ferreira
1:56
About: publish AGU payments
You will have to admit that you are supporting a person who kept his own payments secret.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence States that the endorsed candidate 'manteve em sigilo os próprios pagamentos'.
Nikolas Ferreira
2:00
About: make transparency a government priority
The Lula government made transparency a banner issue.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence States that the government made transparency a slogan (report).
Nikolas Ferreira
2:05
About: publish AGU payments
While that discourse was repeated, the AGU, under Messias's command, stopped publishing for eight months how much each member of the institution received in fees.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Reports that the AGU stopped publishing fees for eight months.
Nikolas Ferreira
2:14
About: publish AGU payments
A piece of information that any citizen could consult every month on the transparency portal simply disappeared.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Reports that a data item available on the portal disappeared.
Nikolas Ferreira
2:29
About: publish information after press inquiries
And the data were only republished after the press raised questions.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Reports that the data only reappeared after press questioning.
Nikolas Ferreira
2:33
About: investigate fraud against retirees involving unions
You will also have to admit that you are supporting a person who failed to investigate the union of Lula's brother amid a billion‑dollar fraud against retirees.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Accuses him of failing to investigate the president's brother's union.
Nikolas Ferreira
2:47
About: investigate organizations identified by an internal report
In September 2024, an internal report reached the top of the AGU, listing nine organizations suspected of irregular deductions.
Why it was classified this way · 72% confidence Reports that a report listed nine organizations under suspicion.
Nikolas Ferreira
2:54
About: investigate conflicts of interest involving relatives of officials
Among them, the union whose vice‑president is Frei Chico, the brother of President Lula.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Reports a link between the implicated union and the president's brother.
Nikolas Ferreira
2:59
About: apply judicial measures to all organizations identified in reports
When Messias went to court to request the freezing of assets, he left out six of the nine named by the report itself.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence says that six of the nine indicated by the report were left out.
Nikolas Ferreira
3:10
About: preserve freedom of expression without state bodies defining the 'truth'
You will have to admit that you are supporting the person who created a government body to define what is truth and what is falsehood in Brazil.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence criticizes the creation of a body for the government to define truth and falsehood.
Nikolas Ferreira
3:17
About: create a prosecutor's office for the defense of democracy
Messias created the Procuradoria Nacional da Defesa da Democracia.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence reports that the nominee created the National Prosecutor's Office for the Defense of Democracy.
Nikolas Ferreira
3:23
About: create a prosecutor's office to define disinformation
Who decides what constitutes disinformation is the government itself.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence says that 'quem decide o que é desinformação é o próprio governo'.
Nikolas Ferreira
3:26
About: ensure impartial operation of the Prosecutor's Office for the Defense of Democracy
Since its creation, the Procuradoria has not acted on any complaints against members of the government itself, but has acted in cases that affected various adversaries, even asking for the right of reply against journalists and opposition parliamentarians.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence says the prosecutor's office acted against opponents but not against the government.
Nikolas Ferreira
3:37
About: grant amnesty to people investigated for political demonstrations
You will have to admit that you are supporting a person who does everything to keep the Brazilians arrested on January 8 behind bars.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence accuses the nominee of acting to keep the January 8 detainees incarcerated; endorses amnesty as a corrective measure.
Nikolas Ferreira
3:47
About: review cases related to January 8
People who went to Brasília to express their indignation and who today are imprisoned with absurd sentences, the result of trials full of irregularities.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence reports that the January 8 detainees faced proceedings with irregularities.
Nikolas Ferreira
3:54
About: grant amnesty to people investigated for political demonstrations
While the Brazilian people fight for an amnesty to correct these errors, Messias declared.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence reports that the people fight for amnesty while citing the nominee's statement.
Nikolas Ferreira
3:59
About: not grant amnesty to coup plotters
"We who fight and live for democracy, we feel outraged by any project that speaks of amnesty for coup plotters."
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence quotes the nominee saying he is against amnesty (report).
Nikolas Ferreira
4:11
About: combat corruption
It is in the Brazilian who pays taxes and sees the money diverted by corruption.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence states that citizens' indignation stems from corruption and misappropriation of funds.
Nikolas Ferreira
4:15
About: ensure quality public healthcare services
Who takes his sick child to the health clinic and does not find a doctor.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence reports the lack of doctors at health posts as a public problem.
Nikolas Ferreira
4:18
About: reduce street crime
Who sees violence increase and does not find safety on the streets.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence says that violence is increasing and people do not feel secure.
Nikolas Ferreira
4:21
About: appoint a nominee to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal)
And now this man wants to be the judge of those same people.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence criticizes that the nominee wants to be 'juiz dessas pessoas'.
Nikolas Ferreira
4:24
About: prohibit temporary prison leave (saidinha)
These senators will have to admit that they are supporting a person who agreed with Lula's veto of the ban on temporary leave for prisoners.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence criticizes the nominee's agreement with the veto that allowed temporary release.
Nikolas Ferreira
4:31
About: prohibit temporary prison leave (saidinha)
Congress approved, by a large majority, a bill prohibiting the temporary release of prisoners in the semi‑open regime to visit their families.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence states that the National Congress approved a bill prohibiting temporary release.
Nikolas Ferreira
4:39
About: support a presidential veto that reinstates temporary prison leave ('saidinha')
And Messias agreed, as published by the Minister of Justice himself.
Why it was classified this way · 72% confidence reports that Lula vetoed the provision and that the nominee agreed.
Nikolas Ferreira
4:47
About: appoint a nominee to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal)
And this man will decide on public security at the highest court in Brazil for decades.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence warns that the nominee will decide on public security for decades.
Nikolas Ferreira
4:52
About: require digital platforms to remove content without a court order
You will have to admit that you are supporting a person who is in favor of censorship.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence accuses the nominee of being in favor of censorship.
Nikolas Ferreira
4:56
About: require digital platforms to remove content without a court order
Messias argued that digital platforms should be required to remove content even before a judicial decision.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence reports that the nominee defended prior removal by platforms.
Nikolas Ferreira
5:02
About: require platforms to monitor and remove content without a court decision
In practice, a social network would start monitoring what you post and decide whether it can remain online, under penalty of being sued by the government.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence explains the practical consequence of forcing prior removal without a judge.
Nikolas Ferreira
5:10
About: remove content without a court order
No judge, no trial, no right of defense.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence summarizes the risk: 'Sem juiz, sem processo, sem direito de defesa.'
Nikolas Ferreira
5:13
About: grant the government power to silence online content
The same man who wants to give the government the power to silence what circulates on the internet will sit on the court that decides whether this is constitutional or not.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence says the same man who wants to silence the internet is going to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal).
Nikolas Ferreira
5:20
About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
To give you an idea, he cited Lula 54 times in his doctoral thesis.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence reports that the nominee mentioned the president many times in his thesis.
Nikolas Ferreira
5:27
About: appoint a nominee to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal)
Know that the senator who approves this nomination will be saying yes to all of this.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence warns that a senator who approves will be supporting several criticized measures.
Nikolas Ferreira
5:32
About: decriminalize abortion
To abortion, to the secrecy of his own payments, to the omission in the INSS frauds, to the Ministry of Truth, to the unjust imprisonment of hundreds of January 8 Brazilians, to prisoners' temporary furloughs, and to censorship on social media.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence lists 'sim para o aborto' as a consequence of approving the nominee.
Nikolas Ferreira
5:48
About: publicly declare they will not vote in favor of the nominee
A public declaration that you will not vote in favor of Messias.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence makes an explicit call for a public statement against the nominee.
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