The former president () will not be able to attend his ally’s inauguration, scheduled for January 20th. This is because the former Brazilian president has his passport withheld and is prohibited from leaving the country amid investigations into the 2022 coup plot.
To change this scenario, your lawyers need to appeal once again to the (Supreme Federal Court). The last order was placed on October 20th.
In the request, which did not mention a specific trip, the lawyers argued that the ban on the former president from being absent from the country is “devoid of suitable, concrete, specific and individualized grounds”.
For them, the measure imposed by Moraes violates the constitutional principles of “the dignity of the human person, the presumption of innocence, reasonableness, proportionality and reasonable duration”.
and stated that it was impossible to return the document since there was “no change in the factual situation that made it necessary to hand over the accused’s passport”.
In practice, the return depends either on a new individual decision by Moraes, rapporteur of the inquiry into the coup plot, or on a collective vote in the First Panel of the Supreme Court, responsible for evaluating the appeals on the issue in court.
Bolsonaro targeted the former president, former advisors and allies, including high-ranking military personnel.
In March, the minister rejected the request for return made by the former president so that he could travel at the invitation of the country’s prime minister, .
This Wednesday (6), showing images of a meeting with Trump in the USA when they were both in office.
In the publication, the former president also thanked God for Trump’s victory and cited a biblical passage: “crying may last a night, but joy comes in the morning.”
Declared ineligible by the (Superior Electoral Court) until 2030 for attacks and lies about the electoral system, the former president was indicted this year in investigations into jewelry and the falsification of Covid vaccine certificates.
He is also the target of other investigations, which investigate the crimes of attempted coup d’état and violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, including the attacks of January 8, 2023.
Part of these investigations are within the scope of and initiated in 2021, and could in theory result in conviction on different fronts.
If he is prosecuted and convicted by the attempted abolition of the democratic rule of law and criminal association, Bolsonaro could take one and stay.
