The discharge of Jair Bolsonaro
Through his official X account, the Brazilian former president shared his downloaded after the decision of the highest court in his country. According to the opponent, the main reason why his case advances quickly is purely political. “The press itself informs, open and bluntly, that motivation is not legal, but political: The court intends to prevent them from judging me in 2026, as they want to prevent me from presenting me free to the elections Because they know that, in a fair contest, there is no candidate capable of winning. “
“Judging by what we read in the press, we are facing a trial with a date, objective and result defined beforehand. Something that would be a procedural theater disguised as justice, not a criminal process, but a power project that aims interfere in the political and electoral dynamics of the country“Bolsonaro deepened in his complaint.
It should be noted that, during today’s audience, First Room of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brazil unanimously dismissed the arguments presented by the defenses that sought to cancel the accusation of coup attempt.
In detail, Bolsonaro’s defense claimed Curtaining defense due to lack of access to evidence, excess documents and media, Practice of “probative fishing”, and impossibility of dividing the complaint into more than one part. However, from the STF they project the occasions on which the defenses requested access to the evidence of the file and that access to them was allowed.
“Everyone knows that what is happening is, in fact, a Species of legal attack on democracy: a political trial, partially and openly conducted by a completely committed and distrustful speaker, whose objective is to take revenge, stop and eliminate me from the polls. Because everyone knows that, with my name in the race, my victory and the conquest of the majority in the Senate are unavoidable results, “Bolsonaro analyzed.
In this scenario, the former president of the Brazilian warned the ruling party that they do not believe that “the world is not paying attention.” “The cInternational omunity Follow what happens in Brazil. Jurists, diplomats and political leaders already recognize the employer: it is the same script that was seen in Nicaragua and Venezuela, “he concluded.
What accuses Jair Bolsonaro
The initial complaint filed charges against 34 people, but the Supreme Court only decided on Tuesday about Bolsonaro and seven other defendants. Among them are the former defense ministers, Walter Braga Netto and Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, and the former justice minister, Anderson Tor, in addition to Bolsonaro himself.
He former president of Brazil He is accused of violent abolition of the democratic state of law, attempted coup d’etat, Linking with an armed criminal organization, qualified damage and assets deterioration.
In detail, on January 8, 2023 thousand supporters of the then outgoing president Bolsonaro They entered the headquarters of the Presidency, the Parliament and the Supreme Court located in the capital of Brasilia. To the shout of “fraud” assaulted and vandalized the buildings. The then president had not accepted the Results of the elections that gave Da Silva winner by little margin.
If they are convicted only for the coup attempt, the penalty could reach up to 12 years in prison. However, the Brazilian ex -president He is accused of at least 5 crimes, so the sum of the other positions would raise the potential sentence until 40 years.
Source: Ambito
