The governor of Goiás, Ronaldo Caiado (União Brasil), said on Monday that the first act of an eventual government if elected president in 2026 would be the granting of a “broad, general and unrestricted amnesty” for both the defendants who participated in the invasions of the three powers on January 8, 2023 and for those accused of promoting an attempted coup d’état. In this second group there is former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), who today responds to a lawsuit in the Supreme Court (STF).
“My first act, if it is elected president of the Republic, will be exactly signing amnesty to all. From now on we will discuss another moment in national political life. Enough this subject. This subject is over,” said during an interview with TV Cultura’s ‘Roda Viva’.
Caiado avoided responding with all the letters whether or not he believed an attempt to blow after the victory of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) against Bolsonaro in the 2022 election, but confirmed that his proposal for presidential forgiveness would also apply to the mentors of the attacks. Even if it means going in the opposite direction to one or more decisions of the judiciary.
“It is not governed in subjectivity. Government of concrete facts. Subjective is a lot. What is the concrete fact? This fact is already two years and six months, can no longer wait for it and Brazil stopped discussing amnesty, discussing these people. They designed a situation that has no other agenda for Brazil. I as a candidate for president have to have clear positions.
As well as avoided responding directly on the attempt to coup after the 2022 election, Caiado also fell over the dictatorship period in Brazil (1964-1985). Asked whether or not there was a military dictatorship, he replied that there was a “movement” after a “circumstance” created by Jânio Quadros and João Goulart “break the entire national order”:
“It had restrictions on institutional acts in a period when barbarities took place. You have to analyze the fact that 1964 with the eyes of 1964. All of this were created situations that caused this whole process of reaction, and that we came to the full, general and unrestricted amnesty. It was a conflicted process that had Brazil.”
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The Goian governor declared himself as “the longest opposing PT in Brazil” and criticized the Lula administration, although his party has positions on the Esplanade. Caiado justified that this situation is not exclusive to União Brasil and said that the 2026 pre-election convention will indicate the path that the subtitle will follow. For Caiado, the petista government is “disintegrating.”
Regarding the possibility of not being the only candidate on the right in next year’s election, the Goian Governor said no problem, betting that the situation would change in the second round due to a “convergence of principles”. He said the candidacy of Bolsonaro or someone nominated by the former president is a “personal decision of him.”
“I have to do the task of my home. He (Bolsonaro) has every right to be a candidate, to appoint his candidate. This is his prerogative. I am a person who never held a position by appointment, has always been by public tender. I was never a sponsored candidate, nor candidate for anyone,” he said.
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Even being an ally of the former president, Caiado made no praise for Bolsonaro’s government. He said Brazil had a “great statesman” with Juscelino Kubitschek, but after that “really is to be desired a lot.”
Throughout his interview, Caiado also defended fixed mandates to the Supreme Ministers – for him, the current model of lifetime mandate creates a “situation of accommodation and expansion of powers and prerogatives” – and said that, if elected, it intends to restrict the release of parliamentary amendments so that the amount indicated by deputies and senators “stay where it should be”. For the pre-candidate for the Planalto, the values indicated by parliamentarians must serve to comply with the president’s government plan, which “cannot be figurative.”
