The minister of the (Supreme Federal Court) stated this Thursday (28) that he may indict more suspects of participation in the .
The reason, according to him, would be the fact that military personnel targeted by the PF operation last week will still have to give more statements. Researchers are trying to identify at least others.
“It is possible, precisely because there are people arrested and indicted who will be heard. New information will certainly come. What is said is that this report was a little delayed due to the latest information that was collected. So, it is possible that there is still development”, Gilmar told journalists during an event in Portugal.
The plan discovered by the PF included killing the elected president (), the vice-president (PSB), and the minister to keep Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in power.
The PF sent the final report before concluding the investigation into the actions of military personnel suspected of planning the death of authorities. One of those allegedly involved, Lieutenant Colonel Rodrigo Bezerra de Azevedo, was arrested on the 19th and did not even give a statement before the delivery of the final document on the investigation.
In the interview in Lisbon this Thursday, Gilmar said he considered it “extremely serious” for high-ranking military personnel to have been involved in discussions of a coup d’état.
He said that, despite the heads of the Army and Air Force having denied support for the former president’s coup attempts, the fact shows the need to depoliticize the .
“It doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t carry out reforms so that the chances we gave to this, for example, the militarization of the administration, are reduced,” he stated.
The minister said he considers it important that the National Congress votes on a PEC (Proposed Amendment to the Constitution) that prohibits military personnel from contesting elections while they remain on active service in the Armed Forces.
The proposal was formulated by the Minister of Defense last year. He got support from the military leadership. The original text also restricted .
The text ended up being dehydrated, due to opposition from government senators. The current version only provides for impediments to applications from active military personnel. If any officer or enlisted man wants to compete, he will have to go to the reserves.
The proposal has been stuck in the Senate for more than a year.
“I think it would be a strengthening of institutionality to define which positions [os militares] can occupy, which administrative functions we consider security functions”, he said.
In addition to this proposal, the PT tried to get Congress to approve a proposal that removed from the Constitution the duty of the Armed Forces to guarantee “law and order”. In practice, the Forces would lose the possibility of participating in GLO operations, and the thesis that the military would be a Moderating Power would be excluded — as advocated by lawyer Ives Gandra.
