In October 2015, eight protesters were handcuffed for nine days at the Pilasters of the Green Hall of, in Brasilia. The goal was to press the then president of the House, at the time in the MDB, to accept one of the 37 requests for against (). Among the camp was the protest leader, who mobilized militancy with live entries over the internet.
“We asked politicians: ‘Are you in favor of impeachment?’ If it were, he signed a panel, “recalls the PL federal deputy, in an interview with video conferencing, hours for the (Supreme Court) for the crimes of ideological forgery and invasion of a computer device.
A decade after the protest “Handled by Impeachment”, Zambelli, 44, can be arrested, now in the penitentiary system.
In the understanding of the STF ministers, the deputy, who was the face of Bolsonarism in Congress until he fell on ostracism shortly after the 2022 elections, guided hacker Walter Delgatti to invade the system of (National Council of Justice) to forge false documents, including an arrest warrant for, and causing political turmoil in the country.
If the defense appeals are not accepted, the deputy will lose the mandate, will be ineligible and serve the penalty of ten years in prison, following the unanimous decision of the five ministers of the first class of the Supreme Court. Delgatti, in turn, was sentenced to eight years in prison.
“I have a little fear of other women in jail, right? Because I never know what I will find, but I also fight, so I’m not afraid to catch. The biggest problem is being away from family,” says the deputy, reporting Temer for her health.
She claims to have received the diagnosis of three diseases: ehlers-danlos syndrome, which causes joint hypermobility, orthostatic postural tachycardia syndrome, which causes dizziness and increased heart rate when one gets up and depression. Zambelli says she has never committed any crime and claims to be a victim of persecution, but her political life is also threatened by two other cases.
In January, the TRE-SP (Regional Electoral Court) decided to revoke its term for electoral disinformation. Two months later, the Supreme Court formed a majority to condemn her to five years in prison in a semi-open regime for illegal possession of firearms and illegal embarrassment. On the eve of the second round of the elections, the parliamentarian threatened to shoot a man in the gardens in the west of São Paulo, after being, according to, harassed by a leftist militant. It was the beginning of the collapse of Zambelli.
It was not long before the electoral defeat would be three years ago to that episode. Little by little, the parliamentarian saw her old allies away, to the point of saying abandoned by Bolsonaro himself. “I don’t regret supporting him,” he says. “I regret going into some proceedings, such as having impeachment from the STF ministers.”
As the conviction to prison became a reality, Zambelli saw the nods of some PL members, who ask the House to suspend the criminal action against her.
The parliamentarian says, in any case, that Bolsonaro never came to it. Claims to have the support of former first lady. “If she is a presidential candidate, she would support for sure.”
Old Allies of Zambelli in Brasilia were sought by the report, but none of them agreed to give interviews. The guidance was to leave the party leader in the House, (PL-RJ), comment on the case. “Loyalty and fidelity are Zambelli’s main brands. It’s a political condemnation,” he says, who says he is a friend of the deputy since “when she tied herself in the House’s columns.”
There was no talk of politics in the house where Zambelli was born in Ribeirão Preto, in the interior of São Paulo. Daughter of a pedagogue and an administrator, she is the youngest of the family. His brothers are state deputy Bruno Zambelli (PL) and the teacher of constitutional law at Mackenzie Paula Zambelli – who, according to Carla, is from the left. The parliamentarian claims to have a good relationship with her sister today.
In his youth, the deputy joined the Faculty of Architecture, but did not conclude the course because, according to her version, most of the class was gay and wanted her to become bisexual. Studied business planning and worked at KPMG, a multinational that acts as an audit.
Ten years ago, he discovered a brain tumor and, unable to work, decided to deepen his militancy with the streets, a movement he had founded in 2011, famous for acting on June 2013. He began to lead protests for Dilma’s impeachment. At that time, his agenda was anti -corruption. Zambelli was even seen in a protest at Femen Brazil, but she denies integrating the group.
Another protester describes it as an activist with unusual communication capacity. Remember that Zambelli took the initiative to create inflatable dolls with the faces of politicians, in order to highlight the guidelines of the protests.
The deputy says she became right from the meeting with two figures: jurist Ives Gandra Martins, who indicated books, and Pastor Marcos Feliciano, now deputy for the PL, who introduced her to the customs agenda.
Zambelli’s election in 2018, with 76,000 votes, was a reflection of the streets. Already the reelection, when it was the third most voted in the country, with more than 946 thousand votes, was due to a bold digital strategy.
An advisor states that the relationship between her and Bolsonaro has always been asymmetrical: the ex-Mandator never treated her with the same consideration.
He also says that Zambelli heard no one and that he received a message from the judiciary’s high summit to lower the tone of criticism. It also reports the parliamentary’s emotional imbalance and a histrionic way of doing politics. In Brasilia, she approved six bills of her own, including the day to combat phenylketonuria, a rare metabolic disease.
In these two terms, he made some enemies. No wonder she tells you a notebook entitled “ICC – ungrateful for sure”, which has 30 names. The deputy had a malaise with the senator, godfather of her marriage to Colonel Aginaldo de Oliveira-Zambelli has a 17-year-old son, the result of a first relationship.
Moro, then Bolsonaro’s Justice Minister, released a message exchange between them to show that he did not condition a change in command of the Federal Police to an appointment to the Supreme.
Already the former federal deputy Joice Hasselmann celebrates the conviction of Zambelli. “The Supreme Court is doing the justice, which the camera must have done and did not,” he says. The two were friends, but fought as soon as Joice broke with Bolsonaro.
Zambelli says he does not regret having entered politics. “It would come in again, because I think I made a difference,” he says. “I always had the dream of being a senator, but, in the face of all this, that is already a dream that I probably won’t realize.”
