Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has made the first of his presidency’s two planned nominations to the country’s 11-member supreme court (STF), as the dean of the court, Justice José Celso de Mello, reaches the compulsory retirement age of 75 on 1 November (Justice Marco Aurélio Mello will reach the compulsory retirement age next July). Bolsonaro’s nominee, Kassio Nunes Marques, is a more moderate pick than might have been expected from Brazil’s firebrand president and has been met with discontent by radical ‘bolsonaristas’. End of preview - This article contains approximately 1421 words.
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