STJ Schedules Disciplinary Trial of Minister Marco Buzzi for August 6

Overview

• The Superior Tribunal de Justiça set the internal disciplinary hearing for August 6, 2026, to decide complaints against suspended minister Marco Buzzi.
• One complaint alleges an 18-year-old was grabbed and had Buzzi press his genitals against her waist at a beach, and a second complaint by a former aide recounts seven episodes of unwanted touching in the tribunal between 2023 and 2025.
• The Procuradoria-Geral da República filed a 57-page opinion backing the victims' accounts and asked the STJ to punish Buzzi with compulsory retirement, the maximum disciplinary sanction under current law.
• Buzzi's defense presented a medical report diagnosing moderate erectile dysfunction and says it will offer witnesses, videos and other evidence in final briefs; the PGR has formally rebutted the medical opinion and the process runs under secrecy of justice.
• The final sanction is uncertain because a recent Supreme Court decision limits use of mere retirement as an administrative penalty, so the STJ must weigh probatory issues and legal precedent with possible institutional and criminal consequences to follow.