The president (), at the end of a state visit, said that “it is visible” that the former president (PT) contributed to a plan to murder him and in a coup joint.
Bolsonaro became a defendant with seven other accused of joining the central core of the 2022 coup plot on Wednesday (26). The decision of the Federal Supreme Court () paves the way to judge the merits of the complaint by the end of the year.
“If he has guilty, he has to settle for punishment. This goes for all 213 million inhabitants. So instead of crying, it falls into reality and knows that you have committed an attack on the sovereignty of that country,” Lula said, when asked at a press conference about the Supreme’s decision.
The president criticized the opponent for asking amnesty without a judgment and stated that he expects justice to fulfill his role. For Lula, who asks amnesty before judgment “is saying he was guilty.”
“Since there is no way to prove that it did not try to blow, it provokes with society.”
The statements were made in Tokyo, on the morning of Thursday (27) in Japan, Wednesday night in Brazilian time. Lula will travel following to Vietnam.
“It is apparent that the former president tried to blow the country. It is visible, with all the evidence, that he tried to contribute to my murder, to the murder of the vice president [Geraldo Alckmin]for the murder of the former president of the Brazilian Electoral Justice []. It is no use now that he is doing bravata saying he is being persecuted. “
Lula also said that he does not know the case file, but that everyone knows what happened in the country and expects the supreme “vote consistently.” It also stated that the Supreme Court is acting after investigation of months and months “very well done” by the Federal Police and the Public Prosecution Service. “And with a lot of denunciation of important people they are accusing.”
The president also mentioned his arrest in Operation Lava Jato and said that he did not, at the time, were entitled to presumption of innocence, as well as seeing his candidacy in the 2018 election.
“I just hope justice is done. I can’t guess,” he said.
On Wednesday, Bolsonaro criticized Alexandre de Moraes by commenting on the decision and resumed the offensive against the electoral system, which began even before being elected President of the Republic in 2018.
