RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has appointed Solicitor General Jorge Messias to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, the government said in a Thursday statement.

The seat is opening up after Justice Luis Roberto Barroso last week announced he was stepping down from the court, about eight years ahead of the deadline for his mandatory retirement.

The nomination for the 11-member high court, Lula’s third during his current term, must still be approved by the Brazilian Senate.

Messias, 45, has worked for nearly two decades in Brazil’s office of the solicitor general and has run the institution since the beginning of Lula’s current term in 2023.

During that period, he won a Supreme Court case against Congress upholding a change to a financial transac

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