Sergio Moro like Antonio Di Pietro: from the Lava Jato investigation, the Brazilian clean hands, to the government of the country. It closely resembles that of the former Italian magistrate the parable of his Brazilian counterpart, federal judge of the Federal Court of Curitiba and, like Di Pietro, known in Brazil and around the world for leading the investigation of corruption cases which, starting from the Petrobras scandal, have involved dozens of government officials and company executives over the years, and led to the 12-year sentence of the Brazilian president at that time, Lula, detained precisely in the prison of Curitiba, a city in the south of the country.
A maxi trial that Brazilian voters have decided to leave behind permanently, punishing Lula's Workers' Party in the last elections and opting, with a fairly broad consensus, for the ultra-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro. Who immediately thought, for the office of Minister of Justice, a Sergio Moro, 46, former professor at the Federal University of Paraná: the news came on Thursday 1 November that Moro, by now an icon of the fight against corruption throughout the country, has accepted the position. Just as happened to Di Pietro in the governments following the turnaround of Mani Pulite, with only two differences: the former judge of the Milan pool refused to enter the first post-scandal government, the one led by Berlusconi who already in 1994 offered him a chair as a minister; moreover he was never Minister of Justice but Minister of Public Works and Minister of Infrastructures, again in the Prodi government, between 1996 and 1998. Di Pietro was then also a deputy and a MEP, elected with a party he founded himself, Italy of Values.
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Moro, on the other hand, has never officially gone into politics: his figure in Brazil is very popular, but the investiture came from the new president Bolsonaro and at the moment the magistrate enters the institutional scene as a technician, not linked to any political party. A very hot dossier immediately arrives on the table of the new minister: in addition to continuing to promote the rule of law in a country that has once again sunk into a crime crisis, Moro will have to implement one of the main moments of Bolsonaro's electoral campaign, who said he was determined to change the law on carrying firearms of the country.
In the first interview granted to various television stations in the aftermath of his victory in the presidential elections, the former army captain reiterated his most radical solution to combat violence: the liberalization of the transport of arms. “Access to carrying weapons must be facilitated. It is a necessity due to the violence affecting Brazil. We are at war,” said Brazil's new president, adding that the carrying of weapons should extend beyond one's home. “We want to change the law – he then specified – we must lower the minimum age (for the license to carry firearms) from 25 to 21 years. We cannot create obstacles that prevent people from having a gun at home to defend their family".
