The AGU (Attorney General of the Union) appealed the decision that condemned the federal government to indemnify the former president () and the former first lady at $ 15,000 for moral damages due to statements by the president (PT) about the furniture of the palace of Alvorada.
In the appeal, the AGU argued that Lula’s statements “took place in the context of the exercise of its constitutional function and with the objective of safeguarding public assets”.
In September 2024, the 17th Federal Court in Brasilia imposed the penalty to the Federal Executive by accepting the arguments of the Bolsonaro couple of damage to their image and reputation after the petista said that the alvorada’s ex-public who would have disappeared to furniture in the building.
The defense of the former president claimed that the couple Bolsonaro, during the exercise of his term (2019-2022), chose to use their personal furniture and that the furniture of the federal collection was in a warehouse.
Nevertheless, the lawyers argued, Lula declared several times that the former occupants would have “taken and disappeared with 83 furniture”, appropriating public goods.
In the sentence, Judge Diego Câmara stated that, in view of the “proof that the items in reference have always been under the custody of the Union throughout the indicated period”, there was “damage to the image and reputation” of Bolsonaro and his wife.
According to the Constitution, it is possible to hold public power responsible for damage that its agents, in its quality, cause to third parties.
In a note sent to SheetAGU also stated that, as it is the use, conservation and possession of public goods-from the dwarf furniture-“all advertising is necessary for inconsistencies eventually verified, as occurred in the case in question, where it was simply reported the poor condition of furniture and the environment, and the non-location of numerous items, a fact found by the inventing team still under the management of the previous government.”
The agency in charge of defending the federal government also said that “at no time, the proposed action [pelo casal Bolsonaro] He specifically pointed to a speech by the current President of the Republic through which he would directly challenge the authors any criminal conduct. “
The so -called “furniture war” began in the early days of 2023, when, unable to move to the Dawn Palace. He complained about the state of conservation of the official residences of Alvorada and Granja do Torto.
To journalists, the president told that. “I don’t know if they were particular things about the couple, but they took everything. So we are doing the repair, because that is a public heritage,” said the president, who still resumed the theme moments later.
“Less hair apart from the top [do palácio]It is something like it has not been inhabited, because it is all dismantled, there is no bed, there is no sofa. Possibly, if it were his, he was right to take it. But there is a public thing, “he added.
The absence of furniture had also been one of the reasons alleged by the new government to spend $ 196,700 on luxury furniture ,.
At the same time, he said in, shortly after the publication of the report: “All the furniture was in Dawn. Lula incurred false theft communication.”
Michelle also at the time reacted to the Lula administration by stating that all the furniture that was taken were of her own and not public goods. He mocked the couple Lula and Janja as he asked for the installation of a Dawn CPI CPI.
In a sequence of Instagram publications, answering a follower’s question, which used his own furniture from the second half of 2019.
The survey of the Heritage of the Alvorada Palace by the Annual Inventory Commission of the Presidency of the Republic had preliminarily pointed out in 2022 that 261 goods cited had not been located during the work.
At the beginning of the current government in 2023, the presidency stated that a new conference had been held and that the number of missing goods had reduced to 83.
In March last year, all 261 assets of the Alvorada Palace that would be missing.
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