Weekly Report - 21 May 2015 (WR-15-20)

The senate voted by 52 to 27 this week in favour of approving Luiz Edson Fachin to the federal supreme court (STF). The vote was a significant victory for President Dilma Rousseff, who nominated Fachin. Only five supreme court judges have ever been rejected by the senate in the history of Brazil as a republic, but the executive had looked so weak that at one point it appeared Fachin could have become the sixth.