Paulo Gustavo Gonet Branco | |
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 Gonet in 2022 | |
| 43rdProsecutor General of the Republic | |
| Assumed office 18 December 2023 | |
| Appointed by | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |
| Preceded by | Elizeta Ramos(interim) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Paulo Gustavo Gonet Branco (1961-08-16)16 August 1961 (age 63) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Alma mater | |
| Profession | Federal prosecutor |
Paulo Gustavo Gonet Branco (born August 16, 1961)[1] is a Brazilianjurist,professor andprosecutor. A member of theFederal Public Ministry of Brazil since 1987, he is the currentProsecutor General of the Republic.
Together withSupreme Federal Court JusticeGilmar Mendes, he wrote the bookConstitutional Law Course, which won theJabuti Prize in 2008. He is also one of the founders of the Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research.
Gonet graduated inlaw from theUniversity of Brasília, in 1982. He concluded hismaster's degree inhuman rights at theUniversity of Essex in 1990, and hisdoctorate in law, state and constitution at the University of Brasília, in 2008.[2]
From 1982 to 1987, he worked in the Supreme Federal Court as an assistant to JusticeFrancisco Rezek, who had been his professor in law school.[3]
He passed the civil service entrance examinations in the first positions for the office of prosecutor in the Public Ministry of the Federal District and Territories and the Federal Public Ministry.[1] Having opted for the latter, he became a prosecutor of the Republic in 1987[4] and was promoted to Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic in 2012.[5]
Since he joined the Federal Public Ministry before the1988 Constitution was in effect, he is not barred from working as a lawyer, having done so since 1994,[1] also becoming a partner of the Sergio Bermudes law firm.[3] In November 2023, he stopped working as a lawyer, asking for his register in theOrder of Attorneys of Brazil to be suspended.[1]
InBrasília, together withGilmar Mendes and Inocêncio Mártires Coelho, he founded in 1998 the Brasiliense Institute of Public Law, currently known as the Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research, remaining associated with it until 2017.[6] He also wrote the bookConstitutional Law Course in 2007 with these two other authors. It won an award in the 50thJabuti Prize as the third best law book of 2008.[7]
Gonet is a council member in the Center for Higher Studies in Control and Public Administration at theFederal Court of Accounts.[8]
He was also General Director of the Higher School of the Public Ministry of the Union between December 2019 and July 2021.[4][9]
Since July 29, 2021, he is the Deputy Electoral General Prosecutor.[10] He led the Electoral Public Ministry during the2022 general elections. In July 2023, he presented an opinion to theSuperior Electoral Court of Brazil in favour of convicting former presidentJair Bolsonaro for abuse of political power.[11]
SUBPROCURADOR-GERAL DA REPÚBLICA (28/01/2012 )
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| Preceded by Elizeta Ramos(interim) | 43rdProsecutor General of the Republic 2023−present | Incumbent |
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| Preceded by Justices of theSupreme Federal Court | Brazilian order of precedence 19th in line asProsecutor General of the Republic | Followed by |
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