Former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) told supporters on Sunday (16) that he will not leave Brazil and that he will be a “arrested or dead” problem. He also said that “they did not defeat or defeat their pockets” and “invented a stories of coup.”
“This stories were not perfect for them because I was in the United States. If I had here, I would be stuck to this day or who knows them. I will be a problem for them, stuck or dead. But I leave the flame of hope, the liberation of our people. After all, Brazil is a fantastic country,” he said.
Bolsonaro also suggested that his campaign in the 2022 dispute was harmed by actions by Alexandre de Moraes, president of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) at the time. “I couldn’t put Lula’s image with dictators around the world. The other side could do everything. They called me misogynists, fascist, even Marielle Franco’s killer,” he said.
He added that the 2026 election “will be led with exemption” and that “elections without Bolsonaro is to deny democracy in Brazil.” In next year’s dispute, Minister Kassio Nunes Marques, nominated for the STF by Bolsonaro, will be the.
Inelegable, Bolsonaro even suggested that he had names of his political group to the presidency, unlike “on the other side,” but then repeated that he would be willing to run. “Elections without Bolsonaro is to deny democracy in Brazil. If I’m that bad, defeat me,” he said.
Bolsonaro spoke in Rio de Janeiro during an act called by him in support of an amnesty to those involved. He even talked about 1 million people, but the act held just over three blocks of Copacabana.
During speech, Bolsonaro also suggested that his ineligibility could be reversed, minimizing and distorting the reasons for his convictions. “After all, what did you get ineligible why did you take money in my underwear? Any box of money in my apartment? Any embezzlement in state? Because I gathered with ambassadors. The other because I climbed Silas Malafaia’s sound car,” he said.
In June 2023, Bolsonaro became ineligible for 8 years for abuse of political power and misuse of the media in a meeting with foreign ambassadors in 2022, in which the then president made false statements about the electoral process. In October of the same year, he was convicted again by the TSE, by the September 7 electoral use.
“What do they want? It’s a conviction. If it’s 17 years in prison for humble people, it’s to justify 28 years to me,” continued the former president on Sunday, adding that “if something happens to me keep fighting.”
It is pressuring the National Congress to vote on the amnesty bill to the accused of January 8, 2023, when a group of former president’s supporters invaded and depreciated the headquarters of the three powers in Brasilia, only days after the beginning of the Lula 3 government.
The coup content attack generated complaints in the Supreme Court. By the beginning of this year, 375 defendants had already been convicted, with penalties ranging from one year of detention, replaced by alternative measures, to 17 in prison.
With this Sunday’s act, Bolsonaro also tries to maintain political capital to strengthen his defense in the Supreme Court. The former president summoned his supporters to the act in Rio on the eve of the by (Attorney General’s Office), who accused him on February 18 he led a coup plot to prevent the inauguration of the president, victorious at the 2022 polls. In addition to Bolsonaro, the PGR denounced 33 people to the STF.
The complaint begins to be analyzed by the first class of the Supreme Court on March 25. On this date, the ministers begin the debate on whether the 34 accused should become defendants.
The PGR says that the former president edited a coup draft, sought support from the armed forces chiefs to the conspiracy, ancoured with a plan to kill STF minister Alexandre de Moraes and was one of those responsible for attacks on the three powers on January 8, 2023.
He was denounced for the crimes of attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law and coup d’état, damage qualified by violence and serious threat against the union’s assets, deterioration of overturned assets and participation in a criminal organization.
In the event that Bolsonaro becomes a defendant and be sentenced by the Supreme Court at the end of the process, he can take more than 40 years in prison and increase his ineligibility, which today runs until 2030.
