Overview

• The ceremony is scheduled for Monday at 16:00 with a livestream on the STF's YouTube channel.
• Fachin succeeds Luís Roberto Barroso for the 2025–2027 term and becomes the court's 62nd president at age 67.
• The new president previously served as Lava Jato rapporteur after Teori Zavascki's death and was mentioned in leaked messages reported during the Vaza Jato episode.
• His jurisprudence includes ADPF 635 on police lethality in Rio, recognition of racial insult as imprescriptible racism, RE 1017365 rejecting the marco temporal thesis, and ADPF 991 protecting isolated Indigenous peoples.
• Vice president Alexandre de Moraes, appointed in 2017 after serving as Justice minister and São Paulo security chief, is the rapporteur for criminal cases tied to the January 8 plot.