Congressmen and opposition members reinforced the discourse of political persecution to the former president () and sought to attribute to him an image of strength and confrontation, after being declared a defendant for the first class of the (Federal Supreme Court).
Meanwhile, government members () and petistas celebrated the result of the trial, spoke in the victory of democracy and saw the right weakened to 2026.
The former president became a defendant with seven others accused of integrating the central core of. The Supreme decision paves the way to judge the merits of the complaint against Bolsonaro by the end of the year, in an effort to speed up the trial and.
What the Supreme Court wants to avoid is something that pockets are already doing today. The former president’s main argument is of political persecution, with the aim of getting him out of the electoral dispute.
Bolsonaro is already ineligible by decision of the Electoral Justice and cannot compete in 2026, but insists on keeping his campaign to the presidency on the street as a way of maintaining his political capital and allies united.
In a social network publication, shortly after the first class was a majority to make it a defendant, the former president said the court wants to get him out of the dispute in 2026 and sees a “procedural theater.”
Allies of the former president have also been seeking to say that he is quiet in the face of the possibility of a condemnation to demonstrate strength.
“The president is calm. You can be sure that we have the clarity that everything that is happening involves politics, involves in 2026,” said the opposition leader in the House of Representatives, Zucco (PL-RS).
Zucco was with Bolsonaro during the trial in the office of Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), with other allies. “Nothing that surprised us to the game of marked cards. Who didn’t know that?” Asked Senator Jorge Seif (PL-SC).
The Senator (Republicans-DF) said Bolsonaro knows his problem is serious. According to her, Bolsonaro will wait with “courage and head up” the final decision of the Supreme Court.
“Bolsonaro is a strong man, he is a fearless man, he was excited, well, and he knows the size of the problem. He is not sublimating, he knows he is serious and knows his role in this whole story,” the senator told the senator to Sheet.
On the government side, two ministers said, under reserve, that the STF’s decision should increase pressure on Bolsonaro to give up the 2026 elections, consolidating the name of the governor of Sao Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), as an option of the right in the election.
In the words of one of these ministers, Bolsonaro is today a letter outside the deck and will not be supported by center subtitles, as the path that opens is the prison of the former president.
The government leader in the House, José Guimarães (PT-CE), tells the Sheet that the Supreme decision “represents a deep defeat to the right forces in Brazil.”
“I think Bolsonaro will not be a candidate and should present a name to try to hold his legacy. But it is not easy because a legacy is not 100% transferred. I imagine they are in a dead end,” he says.
The chief minister of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations, (PT), said in a publication on social networks after the decision of the Supreme Court that the trial on Wednesday was under the course of “due process, with a broad guarantee of the right to defend the accused”. She did not mention Bolsonaro’s name or the others who became defendants.
“Today the court spoke and made defendants, unanimously from the STF class, the commanders of the attempted coup against democracy in Brazil,” wrote Gleisi.
“It is very significant that this decision has been taken in light of the facts presented in the complaint, in the course of due process, with broad guarantee of the right of defense to the accused. All elapsed in the democratic rule of law that the defendants tried to abolish,” followed the minister in the publication.
The holder of agrarian development, Paulo Teixeira (PT), states that the decision of the magistrates is something “unprecedented”. “A former president and three generals have become defendants for attempted coup and violent suppression of the Democratic Rule of Law. Until next year they will be convicted and arrested,” he said.
Auxiliaries close to Lula defended behind the scenes that members of the executive would avoid positioning themselves on the subject, as it is a court decision and not a federal government issue., Interlocutors of the petista said since the report of the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) in February that the guidance was that ministers and the president himself would avoid themselves on the subject.
The argument is that this is a judicial process and that the current government has little to gain, entering controversy.
Federal Deputy Zeca Dirceu (PT-PR) reinforced the importance of the trial, but sought to push him from Lula.
“It is not a complaint made by a political opponent, a party. The organ has this task, the prosecutor, the prosecutor, to do, so I find it very important, because there are people who think the complaint is from Lula, the PT,” he told journalists on Planalto.
