Five former government from the Government of They should give testimony on Thursday as witnesses to the coup plot criminal action. The speech of Paulo Guedes (Economics), Bruno Bianco (Attorney General of the Union), Wagner Rosario (Comptroller of the Union), Adolfo Sachsida (Mines and Energy) and Célio Faria (Secretariat of Government). The five were nominated by the defense of former Minister Anderson Torres, who is a defendant in the process, alongside Bolsonaro and six others.
Torres’ defense is expected to question former ministers about their participation in a ministerial meeting in July 2022. According to PGR, at this meeting there was a discourse of Bolsonaro and ministers “aimed at mobilizing high-ranking public agents against the regular functioning of the democratic system.”
This week, former ministers Marcelo Queiroga (Health) and Victor Godoy (Education) have already testified and denied having seen a coup intention at the ministerial meeting.
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For this Thursday, the speech of Adler Anaximandro de Cruz and Alves, who was a general lawyer of the substitute Union, also nominated for the defense of Torres. The hearings occur by video conferencing and are led by the rapporteur of the action, Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
In all, testimonials from 13 former Bolsonaro ministers are scheduled. On Friday, the speeches of the governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas, Senator Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI), Federal Deputy Eduardo Pazuello (PL-RJ) and Gilson Machado Neto, Already in the second is the speech of Senator Rogério Marinho (PL-RN) and former Minister Marcos Pontes.
The trial is expected to decide on the conviction or acquittal of the former president and other defendants to take place this year. They respond for crimes of armed criminal organization, attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, coup, damage qualified by violence and serious threat and deterioration of listed heritage.
