Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Justice during the last year of the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, Antonio Ramirez Lorenzo said on Wednesday, 28, in a statement to the Supreme Court (STF), regret of offensive publications against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the STF minister Luis Roberto Barroso, 2022. Electoral Superior (TSE).
In a member of mea-culp, Lorenzo recommended that digital platforms are not used as a “public arena” and said it is better to “keep opinions for themselves.” He was heard as a defense witness to former Justice Minister Anderson Torres, a defendant in the criminal action on the attempted coup d’état. The statements were made after the rapporteur, Minister Alexandre de Moraes, rescue publications made by Lorenzo in his profiles.
The former executive secretary of the Ministry of Justice, who is also a brigadeiro do air, called Barroso a “influencer teenager” and Lula with “national shame”, a few hours after protesters promoted vandalism acts in the federal capital, in December 2022. “It was in the heat of emotion,” said Lorenzo in the statement, following that it would have been better to “keep opinions for himself”.
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Lorenzo criticized a social network after Flávio Dino (at that time indicated to replace Torres at the Ministry of Justice) to grant a press conference shortly after vandals try to depredate the headquarters of the Federal Police.
For the former auxiliary of Torres, Dino made a “fuss”. “Thus works the left is not government, has no power or authority about the matter, but convers collective, is listed and, as always, without practical results towards a shameful hole national shame,” he wrote.
Transition
Moraes highlighted this publication after asking Lorenzo if there was a “technical transition” at the Ministry of Justice between Torres and Dino. The air brigadeiro replied that the transition in the folder was made “decent”.
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He also spoke out about the 2021 live in which Bolsonaro, along with Torres, made attacks without evidence to the electronic ballot boxes and the electoral system. Lorenzo said he was “quite scared” to learn of the call for the then Minister of Justice to participate in the live broadcast.
“When I got this phone call I was very scared,” he said. “It was not worth it to mess with this, it was quite complicated. There was no indisposition from Anderson in relation to the polls, they are an interesting modern and technological factor, and there was no proof of discrediting the ballot boxes,” said the former secretary.
The plan discussed internally, said Lorenzo, was trying to expose the minister as little as possible in the live and bring “essentially technical content, which could be said without further commitment, as it was a sensitive theme.”
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“Interestingly, almost for very little, he didn’t participate,” said Lorenzo. “The president even rehearsed that he was going to end Live – this should not appear in the cameras, but an assistant crawled by the table, poked him and said the minister was outside with the report in hand.”
Strategy
During the STF hearing, Torres’s defense sought to extract from defense witnesses statements that showed that the former minister had no intention of attacking the ballot box and that he would only have been “summoned” by Bolsonaro to participate in the broadcast-two other deponents have said that.
In addition, lawyers rescued a meeting in which the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) pointed out that it would be the meeting that defined the largest number of federal highway police (PRF) blitze in the northeast during the second round of the 2022 presidential election. For defense, there was no plan to favor Bolsonaro or direction of operations.
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Lorenzo was another witness to corroborate this version. “There was a great concern against electoral crimes, as in the first round. The operation is against electoral crime,” he said. “Minister Anderson has always shown exemption, separation between ministry action and what was personal preference.”
Facts
Moraes even scolded Lorenzo during the audience. The air brigadeiro said that if he had not experienced experience in the Ministry of Justice, he could believe that there was an attempt to blow. “Respond to the facts. Whether or not you think was a blow, this is not important to the court. Let’s stick to the facts,” said the minister.
‘Is the secretary a queen of England?’
A second defense witness by Anderson Torres was heard yesterday at the Supreme Court (STF), the military police colonel of the Federal District Rosivan Correia de Souza.
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During the colonel’s hearing, Minister Alexandre de Moraes reacted with irony to the declarations of the defense lawyers and the colonel himself that the DF PM would not be “subordinate”, but “linked” to the Public Security Bureau at the time occupied by Torres.
“Here in the Federal District there is a binding of the Military Police to the SSP. There is no subordination,” Rosivan said. “So the Security Secretary is a Queen of England here?” Asked Moraes, who remembered the similar role she performed in Sao Paulo as secretary of public security of the state.
“To say that the Security Secretariat does not exercise the hierarchy about the police is to mean that the President of the Republic is not the head of the Armed Forces,” said the minister.
