Paulo Gonet Branco

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Paulo Gustavo Gonet Branco
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43rd Prosecutor General of the Republic
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18 December 2023
ProfessionFederal prosecutor

Paulo Gustavo Gonet Branco (born August 16, 1961) [1] is a Brazilian jurist, professor and prosecutor. A member of the Federal Public Ministry of Brazil since 1987, he is the current Prosecutor General of the Republic.

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Together with Supreme Federal Court Justice Gilmar Mendes, he wrote the book Constitutional Law Course, which won the Jabuti Prize in 2008. He is also one of the founders of the Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research.

Career

Gonet graduated in law from the University of Brasília, in 1982. He concluded his master's degree in human rights at the University of Essex in 1990, and his doctorate in law, state and constitution at the University of Brasília, in 2008. [2]

From 1982 to 1987, he worked in the Supreme Federal Court as an assistant to Justice Francisco Rezek, who had been his professor in law school. [3]

He passed the civil service entrance examinations in the first positions for the office of prosecutor in the Public Ministry of the Federal District and Territories and the Federal Public Ministry. [1] Having opted for the latter, he became a prosecutor of the Republic in 1987 [4] and was promoted to Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic in 2012. [5]

Since he joined the Federal Public Ministry before the 1988 Constitution was in effect, he is not barred from working as a lawyer, having done so since 1994, [1] also becoming a partner of the Sergio Bermudes law firm. [3] In November 2023, he stopped working as a lawyer, asking for his register in the Order of Attorneys of Brazil to be suspended. [1]

In Brasília, together with Gilmar Mendes and Inocêncio Mártires Coelho, he founded in 1998 the Brasiliense Institute of Public Law, currently known as the Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research, remaining associated with it until 2017. [6] He also wrote the book Constitutional Law Course in 2007 with these two other authors. It won an award in the 50th Jabuti Prize as the third best law book of 2008. [7]

Gonet is a council member in the Center for Higher Studies in Control and Public Administration at the Federal Court of Accounts. [8]

He was also General Director of the Higher School of the Public Ministry of the Union between December 2019 and July 2021. [4] [9]

Since July 29, 2021, he is the Deputy Electoral General Prosecutor. [10] He led the Electoral Public Ministry during the 2022 general elections. In July 2023, he presented an opinion to the Superior Electoral Court of Brazil in favour of convicting former president Jair Bolsonaro for abuse of political power. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Paulo Gustavo Gonet Branco". Senado Federal. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "Professor Doutor Paulo Gonet Branco" (PDF). Instituto de Ciências Jurídico-Políticas. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Quem é Paulo Gonet, indicado por Lula para a Procuradoria-Geral da República". CNN. 27 November 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  4. 1 2 "Sessão de abertura do 2º semestre forense no TSE marca chegada do novo vice-procurador-geral eleitoral". 2 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  5. ↑ "Paulo Gustavo Gonet Branco". Memorial MPF. Retrieved 15 August 2022. SUBPROCURADOR-GERAL DA REPÚBLICA (28/01/2012 )
  6. ↑ "Paulo Gonet não é mais sócio de Gilmar Mendes no IDP". Jota. 14 September 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  7. ↑ "Prêmio 2008 (50 anos)". Prêmio Jabuti. Archived from the original on 2015-06-19. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  8. ↑ "PORTARIA-TCU No 248". Boletim do Tribunal de Contas da União. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  9. ↑ Baptista, Graziane Madureira. "PGR indica nova diretoria da ESMPU para biênio 2020/2021". Escola Superior do Ministério Público da União (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-04-06.
  10. ↑ "Aras nomeia Paulo Gonet Branco como vice-procurador-geral Eleitoral". ConJur. 29 July 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  11. ↑ "MP Eleitoral apresenta parecer pela inelegibilidade de Bolsonaro". Tribunal Superior ELeitoral. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  12. ↑ "Livro do ministro Gilmar Mendes ganha Prêmio Jabuti". ConJur. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  13. ↑ "Tribunal Superior do Trabalho". TST. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  14. ↑ "Diário Oficial da União". DOU. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
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