The Federal Supreme Court (STF) begins judging this Monday (6) the provisional decision of Minister Luís Roberto Barroso extending the term for the suspension of orders and measures for eviction and eviction of vulnerable people who were already in the spaces before 20 March 2020. The score is 2×0 in favor of the decision.
In June, Barroso suspended evictions for six months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Last week, the magistrate extended the ban until March 31, 2022, in a provisional decision that is being analyzed in the virtual plenary by the other nine members of the Supreme Court.
On the afternoon of Monday (6), minister Edson Fachin accompanied the reporting minister, Roberto Barroso, in the vote that extended until March 2022 the ban on evictions. The trial in virtual plenary began at 00:00 this Monday and ends at 23:59 this Tuesday (7).
understand decision
Minister Barosso’s decision, issued in June, was a response to an action by the PSOL, which pointed to a relevant number of displaced families and threatened with removal in the country.
The party used data from the Zero Eviction Campaign, which indicate more than 9,000 families evicted in 14 Brazilian states, and others 64 thousand threatened with eviction.
“In the face of an unprecedented health crisis and in view of the real risk of a third wave of contagion, property, possession and land rights need to be weighed against the protection of the life and health of vulnerable populations, public agents involved and also with the risks of increased contamination for the general population. If collective occupations have been consolidated for at least one year and three months, this is not the time to carry out the eviction order”
Luís Roberto Barroso, STF minister
The decision does not cover occupations carried out after March 20, 2020, in risk areas or on indigenous lands. For the minister, if people in these situations are evicted, the government must refer them to a shelter.
Reference: CNN Brasil
