Religious Superiors

Discussion around Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) intensified after justices ruled on a post involving Our Lady, with TSE ministers reportedly seeing a strategy by Supreme Court justices Nunes Marques and André Mendonça to disguise defeats. Justice Flávio Dino declared the matter moot at the STF following the TSE's decision to allow the post. Commentators like Antonio Tabet called the ruling a victory for democracy, while critics pointed to President Lula's remarks on Catholicism.