The former president took part in a massive event in the streets of São Paulo where he also requested amnesty for all 1,290 accused of perpetrating a coup against Lula da Silva.
He former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonarospoke this afternoon before a crowd on a stage in downtown Saint Paul and denounced a persecution by the Supreme Federal Court (STF, supreme court) against him. Furthermore, at the event financed by the far-right pastor Silas Malafia, of the Assembly of God of Rio de Janeiroasked Congress to approve an amnesty law for the 1,290 accused of perpetrating a coup against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvawhom he called “poor people.”
Today on Paulista Avenue was the largest popular mobilization since Lula’s victory on November 1, 2022. Was chants against the President and in favor of Israel that marked the hot afternoon with more than 35 degrees in the largest city in South America.
Wearing a bulletproof vest under a Brazilian soccer team shirt, Bolsonaro He said: “I spent a lot of time persecuted and This persecution increased when I left the presidency; We made the transition, I left Brazil and this persecution did not end, they are investigating me for jewelry, for money sent abroad, for disturbing a whale, now they accuse me of carrying out a coupcoup is tanks in the street, conspiracy with businessmen and politicians, none of that happened“, launched the former president.
Two weeks ago, Justice confiscated his passport at the megacause which accuses him of having planned to militarily intervene in the electoral justice system in the event of Lula’s victory, something that happened but that Bolsonarism does not accept in its entirety. “They found a draft of a decree of the State of DefenseHow is it to carry out a coup using the Constitution, we do not call a state of siege; now I seek pacificationerase the past and find a way to live in peace, without shocks“, he justified.
Bolsonaro asked for amnesty for “the poor prisoners” who participated in the attempted coup against Lula da Silva
In this context, he requested a amnesty law like that of 1979, which allowed political opening in the military dictatorship but left unpunished for crimes against humanity committed by the regime between 1964 and 1985.
“We want amnesty for the poor who are imprisoned in Brasilia; “In the past we granted amnesty to those who did atrocities, now we ask deputies and senators for an amnesty project so that justice is done in Brazil,” he assured. Although he considered that those who destroyed the headquarters of the of powers, pointed out that the sentences they received “are not reasonable.
The STF has so far sentenced more than 100 people receive sentences of up to 17 years in prison for violating the rule of law.
Bolsonaro called on the extreme right to support the candidates for mayor and councilors of 2024 and complained about the disqualification that weighs on him until 2030 for having campaigned from the government in 2022 against the electoral system.
Strong support for Javier Milei at Jair Bolsonaro’s event
Bolsonaro’s followers did not let the situation in Argentina pass and also expressed their support for the Argentine president, Javier Milei, another of the far-right leaders in the region.
“We are with Milei, that’s why I have Bolsonaro’s Brazilian flag, the Israeli flag and the image of a lion; is doing the right thing by cutting the chains of communism in Argentina“Fabio Soares, a retiree who waited three hours to be able to see up close, told Télam. Bolsonaro on Paulista Avenue, under 35 degree heat.
For her part, another of the supporters said: “We want Argentina to emerge from the economic disaster with President Milei; when he won Milei, here we Brazilians celebrate that we are not leftist,” said the woman, who belongs to the Rio Assembly of God of Pastor Silas Malafia, the financier who said he contributed $20,000 to organize the event.
Source: Ambito
