The PL leader in the House, Deputy Sostenes Cavalcante, said he will ask this week the urgency to vote on the amnesty bill of those involved in the coup acts of January 8, 2023. He stated that he has signatures of “92 PL deputies and several parties so that we can ask for an annesty project urgency to enter the agenda”.
He participates in the act called by the former president (PL) in support of an amnesty those involved in the. Other leaders speak on a sound truck. PL’s national president, Valdemar Costa Neto cited the increase in “fuel, meat and energy” and pulled a “Bolsonaro” scream.
During his speech, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) criticized STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes and cited the Clezão case. “A deliberate minister let Clezão die in jail, preventing him from taking care of his own health. We will defeat Alexandrism. We will defeat the true destroyers of democracy,” said Flávio. The audience began to scream “killer.”
Cleriston Pereira da Cunha, Clezão, died in November 2023 at the Papuda Penitentiary Complex in Brasilia. He was a defendant for the alleged participation of the scammer attacks of January 8.
The evangelical pastor, one of the main organizers of the act, also called Alexandre de Moraes a “criminal and dictator”. “Strike without weapons does not exist,” he said.
The former president arrived at the act greeting supporters and climbed the sound truck around 10:30 am on Sunday (16) in Copacabana, south of Rio de Janeiro.
Protesters are concentrated on a stretch of Atlantic Avenue. Bolsonaro even talked about 1 million people at the time, but allies considered the exaggerated number and did not detail the expectation of the public.
A group of pockets even tried to include as a motto of the act, summoned a month ago, Lula (PT). By officializing the call, however, Bolsonaro recalibrated a.
Protesters wear green and yellow clothing, carry Brazil flags, and some hold tracks with phrases such as “freedom already for political prisoners”. In the sands of Copacabana beach, posters were stuck with pocket figures that they consider “persecuted by the Brazilian justice”, such as right-wing blogger Allan dos Santos and former federal deputy Daniel Silveira.
Popular flags among protesters, sold by street vendors on site, refer to inflation of products such as meat, egg and coffee, and ask Bolsonaro’s return in 2026. There are also props with attacks on Alexandre de Moraes, “outside Lula” and extolling figures such as businessman Elon Musk, now a member of Donald Trump’s government in the US.
Recurring themes of pockets, such as defense of the “traditional family” and criticism of the so-called “gender ideology”, also mobilize the former president’s supporters. A place set up on site releases material on “straight pride”, with the defense of “Christian values”.
The perception between some protesters is low adherence to the protest. According to one supporter, it would be due to a fear of expressing that he would be settling between the former president’s supporters. “People are scared,” complained a pocketist.
In front of the hotel where Bolsonaro is staying parliamentarians pockets record videos and pose for photos with supporters. Among them are Zé Trovão, Sergeant Fahur, Carlos Jordy, André Fernandes and Father Kelmon.
Prior to the beginning of the act, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) told the press that the demonstration would be “an important step in defeating Alexandrism,” in a critique of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, (Supreme Court). “Everyone agrees that a 17 -year prison sentence for those who depreciated the assets is an exaggeration,” he said.
Other allies of Bolsonaro confirmed presence, including four governors-Tarcisio de Freitas (Republicans-SP), Claudio Castro (PL-RJ), Mauro Mendes (Brazil-MT Union) and Jorginho de Mello (PL-SC). Dozens of congressmen are also at the time, such as opposition leaders in the House of Representatives, Colonel Zucco (PL-RS), and Senate, Rogério Marinho (PL-RN).
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 case, he could take more than 40 years in prison and increase his ineligibility, which today runs until 2030. In June 2023, the (Superior Electoral Court) 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 fake and distorted statements over Electoral Process. In October of the same year, he was convicted again by the TSE, by the September 7 electoral use.
According to PGR’s complaint to the Supreme Court, in the “crucial core of the criminal organization” are, in addition to the former president, former Chief of Abin (Brazilian Intelligence Agency) and current federal deputy Alexandre Ramagem (PL-RJ), former Navy commander Almir Garnier, former Minister of Justice of Bolsonaro Anderson Torres, the Chief Minister of GSI (Institutional Security Office) Augusto Heleno, former Bolsonaro orders of orders Mauro Cid, former Army commander and former Defense Minister Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, and former Defense and Civil House Minister and vice in Bolsonaro’s plate in 2022, who has been in prison since December 14 last year.
