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Market10 Nov 2026

Will Lula name Jorge Messias to the Supreme Court again by 31 Dec?

BinaryResolves 31 Dec 2026
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Your forecast
  • Yes
  • No
Resolves 31 Dec 2026
Why these numbers

History. No count shown: in the past, the same person was named again only after a name fell without a vote. In the times we found, no president sent back a name the Senate had voted down.

Hunch. On 8 November O Globo reported that Davi Alcolumbre told allies that naming Jorge Messias again could cost him re-election as Senate president.

How this resolves

The Messias market resolves the same way on the same official page: YES only if by 23:59 Brasília time on 31 December 2026 Jorge Messias himself is announced as the nominee or his nomination message reaches the Senate president, and NO otherwise. Folha de S.Paulo confirms it, O Globo, g1 and Estadão are the backups.

The pattern behind it

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Three of five times a president's choice for a top court failed in the Senate, the president named a nominee for the same seat within two months. Twice the president named no one before leaving office.

We looked for cases where a president's choice for the country's top court failed in the Senate after 1900, and a newly elected Senate was due to sit within about three months. We found five such times, four in the United States and one in Argentina. Brazil has none in this period: before Messias, its Senate last turned down a choice for the Supreme Court in 1894. (Federal Judicial Center; US National Archives; Casa Rosada; Folha de S.Paulo)