The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaroaccused of having led a “criminal organization“To ignore the results of the October 2022 elections, he declared on Tuesday on the second day of the trial against him and acknowledged that after the defeat in the elections before the current president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sought “alternatives” within the Constitution To check the result at the polls. However, He denied having tried a coup d’etat.
“We discuss possibilities, alternatives, Always within the Constitutionwithout leaving its four lines “, but” we abandon any possibility of constitutional action and We face the twilight of our government“Bolsonaro declared in the First Supreme Chamber, which is judging by an alleged coup conspiracy.
On the first day of the process, Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cidexo -collaborator and right hand of Bolsonaro, said there was a document to activate a “state of site” and “rebuild the elections” of 2022.
The leader of the ultra -right only admitted that after the elections he had various meetings with military commandersBut he said that the conversations were always within the framework of the constitutional rules in a case of eventual fraud, which was not verified.
In turn, he argued that his “rhetoric was always similar” and had repeatedly expressed his distrust. In that sense, he assured that his discredit campaign against the electoral system He only pursued more transparency and was never aimed at preparing a coup d’etat.
He admitted, however, that he could not prove that the electronic system favors fraud, and said that his intention was “to help the Electoral Court, so that the elections were as transparent as possible.”
Before the start of the audience, Bolsonaro told journalists on Tuesday that “that supposed blow that never existed.”
In addition, the ex -president, who maintained tranquility throughout the interrogation, defended his government and made it clear that It intends to continue in politics even though it is disabled until 2030.
“Today I left the court quiet and more trusting that I will be the next President of the Republic To help get our country of disorder we live “said the ultra -rightist leader in a message he published on his social networks after the interrogation.
The trial against Jair Bolsonaro advances for coup attempt
At the second hearing of the trial, he also declared former Minister of Justice Anderson Torres, another of the accused, and spoke about a draft of a decree found at home in the midst of investigations, which suggested declare state of siege, intervene electoral justice and Cancel the victory at the polls of Lula, in order to keep Bolsonaro in power.
The former official explained that it was a “role” that he received from someone who could not identify and that it was one of the “many” similar proposals that circulated in the government, although he remarked that he always said they were false
“He was recurring in those days” and “other authorities also received similar roles,” he said but all were inconsiderate.
In his particular case, he said that he took that document to his house with the intention of ruling out, but then he did not and remained among other papers that were found by the Federal Police when He raided his residence in the framework of the investigations.
Bolsonaro is being investigated as assumption mentor of a conspiracy that, according to the prosecution’s accusation, it led to the violent assault on the three powers of the State that occurred on January 8, 2023a week after the assumption of Lula.
The first Supreme Court must still question two of the eight defendants of coup in this process of the process.
Source: Ambito
