It had a greater impact on the National Congress than, according to deputies and senators heard by the Sheet.
The presence of most of the names on the final list of the investigation was already expected, but not the existence of documents, messages and which, according to the investigation, aimed at the physical elimination of an elected president and his vice, as well as a minister of highest court in the country.
Most of the congressmen interviewed by the report spoke on condition of anonymity. They are part of left-wing and centrão parties, which together today hold around 80% of the seats in the Chamber and Senate.
The assessment of several of them is that the simple thought of using the state apparatus to assassinate opposing political leaders is an unimaginable situation currently in the country, only finding parallels in the harshest phase of the military regime that ended almost 40 years ago.
If put into practice, they say, the crimes would also serve as a free pass for the murder of other politicians in the country.
“Whoever did this act wanted to kill democracy. When they say about killing the president, the vice president and the main figure in this clash today [Moraes]they say in killing democracy. This is unacceptable, as is the murder of the leader of a Power”, said Senator Paulo Paim (PT-RS).
On Tuesday (19), and whose main revelation was the existence, at the end of (‘s) administration, of the assassination plan.
According to the PF, the plot would have been authorized by , one of Bolsonaro’s main allies and vice-president in his bid for re-election.
Messages and documents seized from those investigated mention a budget for the operation — R$ 100,000 — and the printing twice, at Palácio do Planalto, of a schematic planning of the murders that included the stages of the operation, the weapons that would be used and the risks involved.
The document called “Planning – Punhal Verde Amarelo” would have been created by retired brigadier general Mário Fernandes, former number 2 of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic.
The investigations also indicate, based on various other signs, that Army soldiers with training in special forces, called “black kids”, actually mobilized on December 15, 2022 in the vicinity of addresses where Moraes was located with the aim of arrest, kidnap or murder him. The operation ended up being aborted, points out the PF.
On Thursday (21), the list of 37 nominees for the 2022 coup plot was released, with . The PF’s final report on the case was not made public.
The disclosure of the assassination plan and the indictments made by the PF reinforced opposition in Congress to , on January 8, 2023, and also to the idea of pardoning Bolsonaro himself, today ineligible due to convictions in the Electoral Court.
The argument is that there needs to be a harsh punishment if the planning to assassinate political leaders is proven, a situation that does not suit a pardon for January 8th or a new eligibility for Bolsonaro.
The Amnesty PL was placed by the president of the Chamber, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), in a special commission, but so far he has not opened up the possibility for parties to nominate members, nor has he clarified what action he intends to take — whether it will accelerate the process and put the issue to a vote this year, whether to bury it () or whether to leave the definition to his successor.
Lira has four weeks of work ahead of her in Congress before the recess and the end of her term. In February, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB) should take over the post.
The list of 37 nominees has the president of a party, who heads Bolsonaro’s PL.
Valdemar was included in the investigation of the coup attempt in February. Since then, he has not been able to maintain contact with Bolsonaro.
The investigation places the PL president in what he calls the “Disinformation and Attacks on the Electoral System Center”. According to the PF, it was up to Valdemar to “finance, publicize to the press and endorse the legal action that corroborated the actions of the network of ‘experts’ who subsidized ‘technical studies’ that would prove alleged fraud in the 2022 presidential elections.”
Some congressmen heard by the Sheet They said they did not believe that the politician defended or worked for institutional ruptures, much less participated in alleged assassination orchestrations.
Valdemar is a man of politics and would be included in the list of those affected in the event of a dictatorship, they say, adding that they believe that the PL leader was only loyal to Bolsonaro. The former president’s affiliation in 2021 was responsible for taking the PL from an average party to the big ones, today having the largest bench in the Chamber and control of more than R$1 billion in party and electoral public funds in 2024 alone. .
Other politicians, however, claim that Valdemar took the risks by embracing, with the weight of the party — and with the money — theses that are known to be false about the electoral process, which contributed to the climate of intensification and turmoil in the country.
One of the few to speak openly about Valdemar, senator Jorge Kajuru (PSB-GO) said that what defines the leader is a “bile strategy”: “He’s the guy who embraces Lula, calls Lula a political phenomenon, praises him, but send someone to stab him from behind. There are a lot of people around Bolsonaro who think that way.”
Today 75 years old, in Arena, the political support party of the military regime. He served six terms as a federal deputy.
In his career, he was alongside Fernando Henrique Cardoso (PSDB), Lula, Dilma Rousseff (PT), Michel Temer (MDB) and Bolsonaro.
He is also a former regular on scandal news in Brasília. He was convicted of the monthly allowance — having spent time in jail for it — and resigned as deputy twice. He was also the target of investigation in Operation Lava Jato.
