The first class of (Supreme Federal Court) begins on Tuesday (25) the trial that may make the former president (PL) defendant on charges.
The session occurs after an accelerated process of the complaint of the PGR (Attorney General of the Republic) and amid the situation.
The target of frequent attacks by Bolsonaro, who climbed last year, the Supreme Court decided to reinforce its security for the deliberation.
The expectation in the Supreme is that the complaint will be received unanimously in the class, consisting of the Minister-Report, and the ministers ,, and.
In addition to Bolsonaro, seven other members will be tried than PGR has classified as a central nucleus in the articulation of an institutional rupture to prevent Lula (PT) in the 2022 presidential elections.
There are the federal deputy for the PL and former chief of ABIN (Brazilian Intelligence Agency) Alexandre Ramagem; former Navy commander Almir Garnier; former Justice Minister Anderson Torres; former Institutional Security Office Minister Augusto Heleno; The former Assistant of Bolsonaro Orders Mauro Cid; Former Defense Minister Paulo Sérgio Nogueira; and former Minister of Civil House and Defense Walter Braga Netto.
The defendants of the accused deny that they have articulated an attempt to coup and question aspects such as the participation of Moraes, Dino and Zanin in the trial, as well as the deliberation by the first class and not by the plenary.
Bolsonaro’s lawyers intend to focus on technical and procedural matters to justify the innocence of the former president, keeping contact behind the scenes with ministers of the Supreme.
The former president’s public reaction to the process, however, divides his allies.
Divergences range from the strategy regarding the accusations of conduct before the trial.
Bolsonaro’s decision to participate in an interview on Monday night in Sao Paulo for a podcast with Governor Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans) was criticized by people close to the former president.
They argue that the agenda benefits Tarcisio than Bolsonaro, which should focus on the preparation of speeches and interviews after the trial. The schedule is that he returns to Brasilia between the night of this Monday and the morning of Tuesday.
In the federal capital, Bolsonaro should attend the trial at the house of Deputy Luciano Zucco (PL-RS), opposition leader in Congress.
But the agenda is not a consensus between the former president’s main assistants and the team that will defend him in the Supreme, who spent this morning in telephone conversations considering script changes.
Predicting a potential for clashes, the court prepared one of the coup plot complaint. The scheme involves the limitation of access to the headquarters and attachments, the maintenance of the gradis surrounding the court and the monitoring of possible threats.
The level of restrictions is established after risk analysis of the Judicial Police Secretariat. Since the bomb attack in November 2024, the Supreme has been more rigid in defining security plans, with check barriers near the headquarters entrance, for example.
Only the access of court servants and journalists and accredited lawyers will be authorized to accompany the trial.
The Supreme Second Panel canceled his scheduled trial session on Tuesday after Minister Cristiano Zanin’s request. The expectation was to put a big screen in the room and open the space for the transmission of the receipt of the complaint against Bolsonaro.
The plan was eventually discarded by the security of the Supreme Court. The idea is to restrict the public access to the court to the court in the face of the peculiarities of the trial and the daily threats to the ministers detected by the Judicial Police Department.
Supreme safety has also activated the court’s cyber security systems on Monday, providing for an increase in threats to the court’s digital structures. In the STF petition system, a barrier was called to avoid robot access overload to the site. Similar tools are used to ensure the operation of TV Justice platforms.
How will the judgment be
In the current stage, the Supreme Ministers should assess whether the complaint of raises evidence of materiality and authorship against the accused.
It is an initial step in the process. If the complaint is received, Bolsonaro and the other seven persons who will be judged by the case on Tuesday will move on to the condition of defendants and thus respond to criminal actions in the court.
Zanin should open the session at 9:30 am. Moraes is expected to read the report and then begin oral support. Attorney General Paulo Gonet will speak for 30 minutes, and the defenses will have two hours to exhibit their positions-eight defenses will be 15 minutes each.
Only after the lines of the defenses should Moraes present his vote.
At first, he will decide on preliminary arguments pointed out by the accused, such as the requests for annulment of Mauro Cid’s denunciation and sending the trial to the plenary of the Supreme, composed of 11 ministers.
Only after the preliminaries are completed that Moraes will present his definitive vote on the receipt or rejection of the complaint. The other ministers will discuss these points and present their votes in the sequence.
After the vote of Moraes, the order of seniority will be followed: Flávio Dino, Luiz Fux and Cármen Lúcia. The last to vote will be the president of the first class, Cristiano Zanin.
The trial is expected to continue in the afternoon, and the end is scheduled for Wednesday morning (26).
