The minister, of the (Supreme Federal Court), decided to open one (PL-SP) after ministers of the Court complained of what they considered lack of actions in the case.
According to reports made to Sheet On condition of anonymity, Moraes and other ministers criticized in conversations reserved with other members of the Judiciary Summit the fact that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not speak after the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
In the evaluation of part of the Supreme Ministers, the threats deserved a more emphatic positioning of the chancel.
So far, the folder has kept silent to avoid, according to the minister’s assistants (Foreign Affairs), to harm management that would be made to prevent Moraes from being the target of punitive measures from Washington.
The explanation given by Itamaraty to the Supreme Ministers suggests that diplomacy cannot precipitate in public statements it is believed that discreet actions may be more successful.
The Foreign Affairs portfolio maintains contact with the STF to inform about the progress of the case. The dialogue occurs at the ministerial and technical level, between filled diplomats in the court and the chancel.
A member of the Supreme said, under reserve, that the opening of the investigation would also be a response to the climb of the actions of against ministers of the Supreme. He said the inaction of NA (Attorney General’s Office) during the Jair Bolsonaro government left the importance of investigating acts against the institutions as a lesson.
The STF’s criticism of the Itamaraty joins those of a wing of government ministers () that also pressures the portfolio by a political reaction to which it considers a Trump attack against Brazilian institutions.
Last week, Rubio said during a hearing at the US Congress that Moraes could suffer sanctions in the country and that the matter was “under analysis.”
On Wednesday (28), the State Department, equivalent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, announced that it will restrict access to foreigners that the government evaluates as responsible for censoring US companies or citizens, as well as residents in the country.
The Trump administration’s announcement does not quote Moraes, but Bolsonarists evaluate that he, as well as other members of the Brazilian Federal Police and the Brazilian Judiciary, must be reached by the restriction of visas. There has been no confirmation of the people affected by the American measure. Nor is there information about whether any list of targets will be published.
In another sign that Moraes is in the sights of US authorities, The New York Times revealed on Thursday (29) that this month to the STF minister in reprimanding the bills of accounts on American social networks.
Vieira’s allies say under reserve that Itamaraty’s public response will occur if concrete measures against Moraes are adopted. Before any reaction, you need to use all channels to try to avoid the outbreak of a crisis, according to these assistants.
In recent days, Itamaraty has not been criticized only by Moraes.
There is a group of Lula’s advisors who opines that the threat made by Rubio demanded a political position from Brazil.
Not responding, they say, strengthened the Bolsonarist speech that Moraes pursued oppositionists and practiced censorship in the country.
They also claim that the subject goes beyond the dynamics of the relationship with the US and has implications for Brazilian internal policy, especially for the involvement of pockets and the potential to be the subject of the 2026 elections.
This group also says that the Lula government needs to find a way to treat the offensive against Moraes as a threat to national sovereignty in an attempt to mobilize support from segments that do not necessarily identify with petism.
In this line, the publication, last week on social networks, of a message by the Minister of Institutional Relations, (PT), was read by allies of the president as a way to press for an official government reaction, especially Itamaraty.
“Bolsonaro’s conspiracy with the far right of the US is shameful, in search of foreign intervention in the Brazilian judiciary. The recent threat of the US Secretary of State for Minister Alexandre de Moraes deserves repudiation and highlights the defendant’s despair with the advancement of scammers’ trial,” he said.
Likewise, the inclusion in Moraes’s decision that opened the investigation against Eduardo from a determination for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to indicate Brazilian diplomats that can provide clarification on the case was interpreted as a message of dissatisfaction with the Chancellery.
The request to open an investigation against Eduardo officially departed from the Attorney General of the Republic ,. He sent a letter on Monday (26) to the Supreme Court informing that he intended to investigate the possible commitment of coercion crimes, obstruction of investigation and violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law.
According to the PGR, the crimes may have occurred when Eduardo Bolsonaro started to act in the United States, with foreign authorities, against “members of the Federal Supreme Court, the Attorney General’s Office and of”.
“The seriousness of the threats carried out by Mr. Eduardo Bolsonaro was all the more deleterious when he realized, in a statement by the United States Secretariat’s holder that, effectively, the sanction measures why Mr Eduardo Bolsonaro is being analyzed,” Gonet said in the representation.
The Attorney General also stated that Eduardo’s offensive, for his public statements, increased as the Supreme advances with the lawsuit of the coup plot-the father, military and allies are defendants in the criminal action.
“Evidence leads to the omilation that the search for international sanctions to members of the judiciary aims to interfere with the regular progress of criminal proceedings, including criminal action, underway against mr. And allies.”
