After months of speculation, President Michel Temer has finally decided to change the Federal Police chief by removing Leandro Daiello and naming Fernando Segóvia. Temer is appointing a man with ties to his own party (PMDB), and who was also vouched for by a group of men currently under investigation.
A lawyer who served the Feds for 22 years, Segóvia doesn’t have the most distinguished of résumés. He was a Federal Police attaché in South Africa and was part of the internal affairs department in the force. However, Segóvia was superintendent of the Federal Police in Maranhão, the home state of former President José Sarney, who reportedly met with Temer on September 17 and lobbied on Segóvia’s behalf.
Temer’s choice panders to his closest allies, who had been pressuring him to change the head of the Federal Police after 7 years under Leandro Daiello. The President had a few options, including the incumbent second-highest-ranked man in the police hierarchy, Rogério Galloro. But the President’s Chief...
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