Bolsonaro calls coup plot allegations “mild”
Former Brazilian President Jair This Monday, Bolsonaro described the coup allegations as “mild” prepared against him by the police and has cast doubt on justice, which he has once again said favored current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the 2022 elections.
“A coup is a serious matter” And this “must involve all the armed forces; no one is going to carry out a coup with a reserve general and half a dozen officers,” Bolsonaro said upon landing in Brasília, after spending a few days in the northeast. Country.
The former head of state (2019-2022) has returned to the Brazilian capital after the federal police censured him last week. Alleged participation in a coup plot to overthrow Lula Following the election two years ago, in which he lost re-election.
“On my part, there was never any discussion about a coup (…) Now, I have studied all possible measures within the constitution,” he said, without giving further details. “The word coup was never in my dictionary.”He added and then declared himself “harassed” by Justice.
He claims the case is “flawed”
Apart from Bolsonaro,Police filed charges against 36 other peopleMany of them high-ranking military officers and former ministers of his government, for “the violent abolition of democratic state law, the coup and the illegal association”. The combined sentence for these crimes is approximately 30 years in prison.
The Brazilian far-right leader criticized, saying, “The allegations are really terrible. It is not fair to condemn them lightly as they are being done. The whole process is organized and revised all the time.”
From their point of view, the matter is “flawed”. And it is processed under summary confidentiality so that it can be modified at the will of the investigator of the case, Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes. “One person does everything,” he complained.
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The retired army captain also rejected the thesis that thousands of his followers who attacked the headquarters of the nation’s three powers on January 8, 2023, were trying to instigate military intervention to overthrow Lula and return him to power. Was done. He said, “No one would have staged a coup on Sunday with people who had Bibles in their hands.”
In this context, it has once again cast doubt on the actions of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) in the 2022 elections, at that time that court was presided over by de Moraes and for Bolsonaro it gave a “quite partial” verdict in favor of Lula. “Worked properly”. ,
“TSE took sides and its partial action influenced the final outcome of the election”He has defended.
Bolsonaro was declared ineligible last year till 2030 To delegitimize democratic institutions and create unfounded doubts about the electoral process.