Barroso corrects information on judiciary spending after being contested in the X

Minister Luís Roberto Barroso, president of the Supreme Court (STF), rectified a speech made at the opening of the judiciary, last Monday, 3, about the expenses of the Public Prosecution Service and the Public Defender’s Office are included in the spending of the judiciary. The correction was made after the excerpt from the minister’s speech was contested in the “community notes” in the X (former Twitter).

“The cost of the judiciary is often remembered, and the judiciary actually has a relevant cost. We cost R $ 132.8 billion to the country, 1.2% of GDP, but this cost includes the prosecutor and the public defender, ”said the minister on Monday.

The community note has corrected information about judiciary costs including the Public Prosecution Service and the Public Defender’s Office. According to data regarding 2023 of the publication “Justice in Numbers”, of the National Council of Justice (CNJ), the amount does not encompass the expenses of the two institutions cited by Barroso.

“In a report of the National Treasury to which I had access, in calculating the cost of the judiciary, the Public Prosecution Service and the Public Defender’s Office were also included. I retire this information. However, in the data released by Justice in numbers, published by the National Council of Justice, the costs of these two institutions were not computed. It was therefore inaccurate information that I come to rectify at the first opportunity, ”Barroso rectified in a statement made on Wednesday, 5.

Misconceptions

The minister said that criticism of judiciary spending is wrong. “Since 2017, the federal judiciary has lived with the same budget,” he said at the beginning of the first face -to -face session of the year. “By the way, in 2024, we returned to the Treasury R $ 406 million not spent,” he repeated.

“If any of the federal judiciary bodies present a budget outside the standard, he suffers an automatic lock of the Secretariat of Budget and Finance, an agency of the Ministry of Planning,” said Barroso.

He stressed that the judiciary of the states, unlike the Federal, is not subject to the tax framework. “With some degree of misunderstanding about the justice system, a recently published article disputes these numbers, without being able to distinguish the federal judiciary from the judiciary from states. These are not subject to the ceiling and tax framework, which is only worth in the Union plan. In Brazil, states have autonomy, ”said the minister.