The former president () reiterated the call for amnesty this Thursday (28), denied the accusations regarding the final report on the 2022 coup plot and said he had discussed actions with the military (such as declaring a state of siege, state of defense and use of article 142 of ) after the .
He stated to Oeste magazine that only a pardon for the excesses committed in the anti-democratic escalation that culminated can pacify the country, comparing the moment with the promulgation of the Amnesty Law of 1979, at the end of .
Bolsonaro also praised the president of , (-AL), for his attitude after the PF indictment of Marcel Van Hattem (-RS), who had criticized a federal delegate in speeches in the house’s gallery.
“For us to pacify Brazil, someone has to give in. Who has to give in? You, sir. The amnesty, in 1979: I wasn’t a deputy, people were amnestied who killed, who dropped a bomb, who kidnapped, who stole, who hijacked a plane , and ‘let’s pacify, the game will be over from now on’. Now, if there was a word from Alexandre de Moraes regarding the amnesty, everything would be resolved. the former agent.
“I appeal to the ministers of , I appeal. Please, rethink, let’s go for an amnesty, it will be pacified”, he concluded.
The former president said he was happy with ()’s statement and reiterated the thesis that “no one is going to carry out a coup with a retired general, four officers and a federal police agent”.
He also called the corporation’s report a “piece of fiction” and returned to talking about the conversations at the end of his government. He said that discussions with the commanders of the Navy, Army and Air Force took place after Moraes, then president of the (Superior Electoral Court), questioned part of the elections in the second round.
“You even see the statements from the Force commanders. They say that Bolsonaro discussed with us hypotheses of [artigo] 142, state of siege, state of defense. I discussed, yes, I talked, it wasn’t a heated discussion.”
He continued: “Because when we petitioned the TSE in November 22, based on the action, we petitioned a lawyer, within a few hours Minister Alexandre de Moraes —president of the TSE— rejected it, filed it and gave us a fine of R$22 million, We talked: if we appeal, the fine will increase to R$200 million. Who knows, we’ll even have the party’s registration revoked. lines [da Constituição]. I always played within the four lines. What is there in here for us to see what we can look for there to show the errors of the electoral system. He quickly saw that he was unsuccessful. There wasn’t, forget it, leave it.”
Bolsonaro also compared his situation to that of persecuted politicians in , and .
“They want to find a way to take me out of combat. Some even think that it’s not even making me ineligible for longer or a conviction. They want to execute me. I’ll end up being a problem for them locked up.”
Regarding Van Hattem’s indictment, the former president stated that he saw Lira’s attitude towards the congressman’s indictment as positive. He said it was necessary to strengthen the Chamber in the face of, in his view, an omission from , and denied that it was possible to expect similar behavior from (-MG).
Bolsonaro also stated that parliamentary immunity provides for exemption from sanctions for any opinion or vote of a deputy or senator.
“I have a network of just over a hundred deputies and I told them there: ‘in my good days as a federal deputy I would now be praising Arthur Lira’, I sent it to the parliamentarians, several took to the stand and praised him “, he stated.
