Senator Rogério Marinho (-RN) denied (Supreme Federal Court) that there was any coup planning from the Government’s (PL) summit and stated that the former president was concerned with the “civility” of the process of transmission of office.
“There was a great concern that there was no excess, civility in the transmission of power, of office. We were all upset about the electoral process, we did not wait for defeat,” said the parliamentarian.
The statements were made in a statement as a witness to the process of the 2022 coup plot. He was nominated by the defenses of Bolsonaro and the general, former defense minister and former Bolsonaro plate partner.
In the presidency, it caused crises between the powers, and stimulated with lies and yields a campaign to discredit the country’s electoral system.
After the defeat to Lula, he encouraged the creation and maintenance of the scammers who spread across the country and gave rise to the attacks of January 8.
In this same period, he adopted conduct that he contributed to his hopeful supporters that he would remain in power and, met with nearby military and advisers to discuss ways to intervene in the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) and nullify the elections.
Despite this, Marinho said he saw Bolsonaro “worried that there was no blockade of highways, impediment.”
“In order not to be placed on him the sake that he wanted to disturb the economy or change of command in the country,” said Marinho.
The senator reported having met with the then president about ten times after the result of that year’s elections. According to him, the theme of conversations was the party’s future, the PL, the evaluation of the reasons for the failure at the ballot box, and the next steps.
“The president all the time spoke about the election of the National Congress, the importance of him having the presence of the Senate and the importance of growth of PL,” he said.
The senator stated that, in the meetings at the Palace of Alvorada, was with Braga Netto on just two occasions.
With the parliamentarian’s hearing, the Supreme Court ends the audience stage with the witnesses of the first core of the process of the 2022 coup plot, which began on May 19.
Over the past two weeks, the STF has heard 52 witnesses. Of these, there were 5 prosecution and 47 of the defenses. Two gathered written statements.
Throughout the testimonials, the defenses witnesses have made statements that dismissed the defendants from scammers, stating that they have never heard conversations about scammers or, in the case of subordinates, never received orders to disrupt the electoral process or transition to the winning plate.
The first witnesses heard were those of the accusation, including former army commanders General Freire Gomes and former Air Force Chief Carlos de Almeida Baptista Júnior, central figures for the complaint.
Baptista Junior confirmed that General Freire Gomes reported in 2022 to () that against the election of (PT).
“I confirm yes, sir. I followed the day before yesterday [segunda-feira] The repercussion [do depoimento de Freire Gomes]was coming from travel. Freire Gomes is a polite and polite person, did not speak with aggressiveness, he would not do that. But that’s what he said. With very peace of mind, calm, but put it exactly. ‘If you do that, I’ll have to arrest you,’ “said the brigadeiro.
On the 19th, the former army commander said he did not threaten Bolsonaro or gave him an order of arrest. He stated that only and that the army “would not act on something that would go beyond our constitutional competence”.
Baptista Junior, in turn, told the Supreme that conversations with Bolsonaro had a growing coup tone in November. In one of the meetings with the president and Paulo Sérgio, the Brigadeiro stated that the possibility of arrest of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, then president of the.
“. I remember that there was this cogitation of arresting Minister Alexandre de Moraes, who was president of the TSE, and tomorrow the STF will release an HC [habeas corpus] To release it, and what are we going to do? Let’s arrest everyone? He was in Brainstorm, and was in the discomfort, “the former Air Force chief told the STF.
Moraes was hard in the testimonies with witnesses. The profile was evident from the in court and reached the apex when by contempt.
Still, since the beginning of the process, Moraes had more demonstrations of support from colleagues behind the scenes than criticism of the. One of the ministers said to Sheet That the impartiality of the rapporteur cannot be confused with inertia in the search for truth.
Lawyers of the defendants, however, claim that the magistrate has not contemplated the constitutional guarantee of the contradictory. One of the reasons pointed out by them was the lack of access to the complete material of the tests before the opening of the criminal action and now the difficulty of access and time for the analysis of all documents.
Throughout the analysis of the complaint, there was a clash with lawyers, screen in session ,,,,. The hearings also had cut microphones, prohibition of audio recording, besides the most important of the case, and.
