Wellington César Lima e Silva, a Petrobras lawyer, is the new Minister of Justice. He was Dilma Rousseff’s Minister of Justice for a brief period and was the Bahia bench’s bet to take Ricardo Lewandowski’s place in the ministry.
On Tarde Band News, presenter Vitor Brown spoke with Colonel José Vicente, former national secretary of public security and security expert who evaluated Lima e Silva’s appointment.
“As incredible as it may seem, the choice is good within the framework presented in this final year of Lula’s government and has a much better profile, more practical than Lewandowski’s. The former minister did very little in these two years of administration. The minister who was chosen by Lula, has a very interesting professional background for this position. He had a career in the Public Ministry of Bahia and became the prosecutor, attorney general of justice and in this capacity he even made some connections with the Bahia police”.
Wellington César Lima e Silva also commanded the special secretariat for legal affairs of the Civil House between 2023 and 2024. The department is responsible for providing direct legal advice to the president and collaborating with the analysis of bills, provisional measures, vetoes and executive sanctions.
Public security will be the focus of the future minister, according to Lula’s allies. The president wants special attention to the issue, with an eye on the October elections. José Vicente highlighted the need to encourage integrated actions.
“The need to coordinate actions between several institutions that can help in the search for important solutions, as is the case with the hidden carbon operation. It was an operation integrated by eight different entities.”
For the former national secretary of public security, this model of actions between states and the federal government may point to the necessary review of public security policies,
“Rio de Janeiro is a typical example of a combined action that would be very important when after that very slow action that took place with 117 criminals killed, five police officers killed, there were immediately complaints about the federal government’s participation and an emergency office was created there to coordinate the federal government’s actions with the state.
This is a typical action that would fit a challenge this year from the federal government. But beyond that, we have other problems. We have problems in the Amazon and the Northeast, where there are major explosions of violence in the country. It is necessary to review security policies, if there are any, to start taking security seriously, as until now this has not really happened.”
