He Supreme Court of Brazil He began to deliberate on the Possible condemnation of former president Jair Bolsonaro For a coup attempt after the results of the 2022 presidential elections, which gave the victory to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The measure is located within the framework of the trial against him for belonging to a criminal organization and alleged participation in a plan to subvert the electoral result that declared Lula winner.
The five court magistrates who are analyzing the decision They have until Friday to issue a verdict On the future of Bolsonaro, who is 70 years old and, if he is found guilty, he could spend the rest of his life in prison.
The Supreme Court of Brazil began to deliberate the possible condemnation of Jair Bolsonaro
The Brazilian authorities reinforced security at the headquarters of the Supreme Court until the historical case ends, although Bolsonaro did not attend the previous hearings on the recommendation of his medical team, which insists that his health status is delicate after the attack with a white weapon suffered in 2018.
The judge Alexandre de Moraesat the head of the case, was indicated by Bolsonaro followers and even by the administration of the US President, Donald Trump, in an attempt to influence the opinion.
Washington came to sanction Moraes for considering that he incurs a “witch hunt” against the former president, whom he considers “close” to his policies.
However, the judge assured that the court will not yield to “internal or external pressures” and will remain “inflexible when defending national sovereignty.” In this regard, he defended that there are indications of a planned coup d’etat and the beginning of said network in 2021 is located.
For him, there is no doubt of the veracity of the crimes that are charged with Bolsonaro and seven others. “There is no doubt that the rule of law was tried to undermine. It is important to analyze everything, especially because the accusations were poured against an organization that was under Bolsonaro’s orders,” he lamented.
Moraes explained that the judges discuss “not so much if that plan was on the table”, but “who put it there.” “They wanted to perpetuate themselves in power, either through a violation of the laws or by violation of the electoral results of 2022,” he recalled according to information collected by the G1 news portal.
Thus, he warned that Bolsonaro’s security chief, Augusto Heleno, had “an agenda for a coup d’etat.” “It is not normal for a minister to have these things, that he has a plan to delegitimize the elections and the judicial system and perpetuate himself in power. This is not normal in a democracy,” he said.
Brazil: Congress accelerates by an amnesty law for Jair Bolsonaro in the midst of trial by attempted coup d’etat
The Brazilian Congress It promotes the approval of an amnesty law that would benefit the former president Jair Bolsonaro and the protesters who looted the institutional buildings of Brasilia on January 8, 2023. The measure aims to go into force immediately after the sentence planned for him September 12generating an intense political debate.
Matches like Brazil and Progressive Union They decided to abandon the government coalition to support the measurewhile politicians like the Governor of San PabloTarcísio de Freitas, and the Evangelical Pastor Silas Malafaia They lead the articulation with the Bolsonaro family.
The intention of some radical sectors, headed by Eduardo Bolsonaro, is to approve an amnesty “Broad, general and unrestricted” that would include those who participated and instigated the acts, including the former president, enabling him for the 2026 elections.
Source: Ambito
