The former president () admitted in an interview with Sheet He had conversations with assistants about “alternatives” after those of 2022 in which he defeated by (PT), but when asked if he understood that it would fit into a blow attempt, he said that “blow has no constitution” and everything under discussion is in the Magna Carta.
The former president also said that the hypotheses talked to the government interlocutors were discarded “right away” by a series of elements: “The ‘After Day’, how is it?” He said.
“The blow has no constitution. A blow, the story shows us, you do not solve in months. Years,” he said, when asked if discussing with military an alternative to prevent the possession of President Lula (PT) would be an attempt to coup d’état.
“And for you to scam, the shiver of the laws, you have to look for the press, who will be our spokesman, business, religious nuclei, parliament, outside Brazil. ‘After Day’, how is it? So it was discarded right away,” he added in an interview on Friday (28).
The former president became a defendant at the Supreme Court (STF) this week for joining a coup plot. Thus, there will be in the Supreme to open criminal proceedings against Bolsonaro and his allies for five crimes linked to the attempted coup d’état, when the merits of the accusations made by the PGR (Attorney General of the Republic) will be analyzed.
HAS SheetHe said he argued with military personnel what he calls “alternatives,” such as a state of siege, a state of defense and federal intervention in 2022, when he said he would no longer be possible to appeal in the Electoral Court.
“If we cannot speak state defense, from a site, if it repeals this here. Okay. Now, when someone talks about this subject and someone else has the opposite opinion, becomes a blow,” he said.
These measures are foreseen in the Constitution to be used to maintain public order and social peace threatened by “serious and imminent institutional instability”, a serious commotion of national or war repercussion.
The discussion about the alternatives came after the PL filed a lawsuit in the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) contesting the outcome of the polls. The party received from the court one, and threat from an even larger fine if they resorted.
“I didn’t expect the result [das eleições]. (…) If I won’t resort to, where can you go? I talked to people, inside the four lines, that you are tired of listening, what can we do? Hence it was looked there, [estado de] place, [estado de] defense, [artigo] 142, intervention… ” Sheet.
He also stated that it was the conversations were “without depth” and that they were “in the context of the words”.
Over the case mentions that the resistance of General Freire Gomes, then army commander, was the main reason why Bolsonaro did not carry out an attempt to blow.
“I didn’t ask for support. Asks Freire Gomes if, at some point, I said blow. It will answer no,” he said. He also stated that if he wanted to blow, it was just to change the Minister of Defense, military commanders for people who had a contract, which did not occur.
He also argues that he helped the then future defense minister, José Múcio, make a transition with the Armed Forces. Múcio, with whom he was related before joining the Lula Government (PT), sought him to make connection to the commanders and serve him, which occurred.
The former president is ineligible until 2030 and may increase ineligibility if he is convicted of coup d’état.
He became a defendant last Wednesday (26) for the crimes of attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law and the coup d’état, as well as damage qualified by violence and serious threat against heritage, deterioration of overturned heritage and participation in a criminal organization. If convicted, you can take feathers from more than 40 years in prison.
