The judgment at the Supreme Court (STF) of the complaint of the Attorney General, Paulo Gonet, against former President Jair Bolsonaro and 33 others could clarify a central issue in the accusation of attempted coup.
In award-winning denunciation, Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid revealed that Bolsonaro did not accept the first conclusion of an Armed Forces commission that denied there was fraud at the polls.
The commanders of the three forces signed a note authorizing the permanence of supporters in front of the quarters by order of the then president.
Disagreeing with the conclusion of the committee, Bolsonaro “demanded from the then Minister of Defense, General Paulo Sérgio, who demonstrated the existence of alleged fraud,” said Cid.
Bolsonaro then ordered an official note to be issued in favor of freedom of expression.
According to the collaborating officer, Bolsonaro knew that the message would be received by his supporters as a sign of the Armed Forces’s Aquiescence to camps spread across the country.
The press release was published on November 11, 2022, on the Brazilian Air Force official page on the Internet.
Provocations and threats
STF investigations and Gonet’s complaint interrupted a long period of provocations and threats to the Democratic Rule of Law.
In 2017, he waved him with “military intervention” if the judiciary did not solve the corruption of politicians.
That year, federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP) and the then federal judge, from Goiás, questioned the safety of the electronic ballot boxes in video recorded against the TSE (Superior Electoral Court).
Cubas was compulsorily retired, in a unanimous decision of the CNJ (National Council of Justice) in 2024.
Eduardo Bolsonaro stated that “a cable and a soldier is enough to close the Federal Supreme Court.” He was accused of inciting the Armed Forces to animosity against civil institutions.
The deputy mocked: “If you arrest a STF minister, do you think you will have a popular demonstration in favor of the minister, millions on the street?”
STF Minister Celso de Mello stated that the statement, “besides being inconsequential and scammer, shows the type (irresponsible) type of parliamentary.”
In 2018, on the eve of the habeas corpus trial filed by Lula, the then army commander, warned that the army was still “aware of its institutional missions.”
The then dean Celso de Mello was the only member of the Supreme Court to criticize the intervention of the general.
Later, Bolsonaro would publicly thank Villas Bôas for the election.
In 2019,: “The time of the rascal is over. Now it’s the people in power, we don’t want to negotiate anything.”
In 2020, former Minister Abraham Weintraub said he would put “these vagabonds all in jail, starting at the STF.”
In 2021, Bolsonaro transmitted from the Planalto Palace criticism of the electronic voting system.
He gave interview hinting at the time of force measures against the judiciary. He returned to discredit the electoral system.
Abuse of power
Paulo Gonet was an electoral attorney general, in January 2021, when 36 general deputy prosecutors requested the establishment of procedure for Bolsonaro’s abuse of power.
The then President of the Republic had questioned the electronic vote and hinted that there would be no elections in 2022.
The current PGR received the representation “as internal subsidy for eventual future action”. He claimed that the facts were already being appreciated by the Electoral Court and the Supreme Court.
In February 2023, Gonet promoted the filing, with the same arguments.
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