Hours after the former president () became a defendant on charges of in 2022, the governor of São Paulo, (Republicans), came out in defense of his political godfather, whom he called “Brazil’s main political leadership.”
Unlike Bolsonaro, who after the decision of the (Supreme Court) gave a speech of more than 50 minutes in which the Supreme, the (Superior Electoral Court) and the electronic ballot boxes, Tarcisio made no accusations or criticism of the institutions or even the electoral process.
“Jair Bolsonaro is Brazil’s main political leadership, and so it will follow. We know that this is not the first and it will not be the last challenge to be faced, but we also know that the truth will prevail and its innocence will be proven,” Tarcisio wrote in X (former Twitter) and Instagram.
Bolsonaro adopted a political persecution speech to get him out of the scene before the 2026 elections and prevent him from trying to apply again for the presidency of the Republic. Seen as one of the former president’s political heirs, Tarcisio has already admitted to people close to the Planalto Palace if the former Mandanker agreed with the idea.
Last week, the governor and at an event at the headquarters of the TJ-SP (Court of Justice). Days earlier, he had participated in a Bolsonarist act in Rio de Janeiro alongside Bolsonaro. At the time,.
“What is the reason for pushing Jair Bolsonaro out of the ballot box? Is it fear of losing the election, and do they know they will lose?” Asked the governor next to the former president.
For the surroundings of Bolsonaro, Tarcisio has followed his own agenda and already presents himself as presidential, signaling support to the former president, but without direct confrontation with the other powers.
Therefore, despite the nods and the public defense, he would already be preparing the land to face as little resistance as possible between allies and opponents, in fact, candidate for the presidency.
Among those who demonstrated support is Jorginho Mello (PL), governor of Santa Catarina, who said there was no action or speaks of Bolsonaro contrary to the democratic process, and said that the former chief of the executive “deserves to be at the polls in 2026”.
Ronaldo Caiado (União Brasil) was more moderate in an interview with Portal Metrópoles, denied the existence of a dictatorship of the judiciary in Brazil and assessed that the former president will have a transparent judgment in the STF. For him, Bolsonaro is not out of 2026 although ineligible, and cited the case of Lula, who was arrested after conviction in Operation Lava Jato.
Already Romeu Zema (Novo), chief executive of Minas Gerais, did not comment on the admissibility of the complaint.
