Former President () said on Wednesday (26) that the court wants to get him out of the electoral dispute in 2026 and said he sees a “procedural theater” after the first class of the Supreme Court (STF) to form a majority to make it defendant.
“The court tries to prevent me from being tried in 2026, because they want to prevent me from reaching the elections because they know that, in a fair dispute, there is no candidate capable of winning me,” he said.
“To judge for what we read in the press, we are facing a judgment with date, target and result defined beforehand. Something that would be a procedural theater disguised as justice – not a criminal proceedings, but a power project that aims to interfere with the political and electoral dynamics of the country,” he added.
The speech was made in the X, former Twitter, while Bolsonaro follows the end of the second and probably last day of judgment of the admissibility of the case in the office of son Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) in the Senate.
During the day, allies visited him at the scene. Senator and former Minister Damares Alves (Republicans-DF) prayed at the scene with the former president. He will speak to the press at the end of the trial.
In the publication, Bolsonaro republished a report of reporting from Sheetwhich showed that the action of the coup plot has rite that of the monthly.
The former president said the international community follows the trial, not directly mentioning Donald Trump, president of the United States considered his ally. “Jurists, diplomats and political leaders already recognize the standard: it is the same script that has been seen in Nicaragua and Venezuela,” he said.
The day before, the former president kept confidential up to an hour before starting the trial on where he would follow the session, soon to appear in court and sit in the first row.
The gesture symbolically repeats that of the current president of the last year, when he sat at the defense table on trial in New York. In criminal cases, the presence of the accused is mandatory in the US. In Brazil, no.
At the time, Trump was convicted of fraud on charges of having who had had a relationship with. Like Bolsonaro, the Republican said he was the target of political persecution. Despite the conviction, months later, he was elected to office.
The Supreme Court accepted the accusations against Bolsonaro, former Chief of Abin and federal deputy, Almir Garnier, former Navy Commander, former Justice Minister, Augusto Heleno, former Chief of GSI (Institutional Security Office), former Presidential Orders, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, former Defense Minister and Defense Minister.
They became defendants for attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law and coup d’état, as well as damage qualified by violence and serious threat against the union’s assets, deterioration of overturned assets and participation in a criminal organization. Now they can catch feathers that reach 43 years in prison.