Court votes again amid growing calls for it to elect prosecutor. White smoke would alleviate the institutional tensions that have been unleashed by the process.
Francisco Barbosa has already left his office in the famous bunker of the Attorney General's Office. For almost two weeks now, the interim prosecutor has been Martha Mancera, Barbosa's highly questioned number two. With tempers heated after the demonstrations that blocked the entrances to the Supreme Court of Justice at the beginning of the month, the 23 judges meet again this Thursday.