The former president () denied the (Supreme Court) on Tuesday (10) that he discussed plans to give a coup after the victory of (PT) in the presidential election of 2022, but admitted to arguing with heads of alternatives-according to the constitution.
The former president said that “in a few meetings we have abandoned any possibility of a constitutional action.” “We abandon and face the sunset of our government.” But he admitted to seeing “quickly” in a “screen”, a document presented during a meeting with military bosses and then said that the idea was raised about a “state of siege”, but nothing went forward.
This was the first time Bolsonaro was facing the minister to be interrogated as a defendant. It was two hours and seven minutes of testimony, in which the former president answered questions made by Moraes, the minister, the Attorney General, and lawyers.
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Lie
The four years of his term (2019-2022). In testimony, Bolsonaro said the initiatives were not intended to undermine the press vehicles, but to seek a saving on budget.
“The Lord [Moraes] Do not imagine what it is to work from Sunday to Sunday (…) and being massacred all the time for much of our media. Because it is not that I cut the advertising for evil. It’s just that I had spending ceiling, “said the president.
In practice, however, the purpose of the then president was not economical.
As president, Bolsonaro attacked different press vehicles, cursed journalists, chose women as his main target, canceled newspaper signatures, cut off advertising, threatened to revoke concessions and coerce with businessmen to stop announcing in media organs.
Interference in the election
Despite repeating many of the, Bolsonaro had not yet admitted to the court formally that he had been defeated in.
“We sought some alternative in the Constitution and thought it was not proceeding and was closed,” Bolsonaro told Minister Rapporteur, on Tuesday (10).
“These meetings that took place were largely due to the decision of the [Tribunal Superior Eleitoral]”Bolsonaro said, adding that he would have discussed alternatives after being hampered to question the electoral outcome.
Bolsonaro’s speeches submitted so far to the Supreme Court, which sought to suspect Mauro Cid’s statements and technically discuss the criminal framework of the alleged acts imputed to the former president.
Misrepresentation
In interrogation, the former president and his former orderer of orders misrepresented that they would aim to prevent Lula’s possession, experts heard by Sheet.
For them, Bolsonaro and Cid triggered an idea of ”instrumental legality” entrained in military culture that misrepresents the real concept of legality and affront to the Constitution.
An example of this is Bolsonaro’s speech in the interrogation on Tuesday (10), when the politician again said that he always acted within the limits of the Magna Carta. At the same time, he admitted to talking about “alternatives” and even mentioned the discussion of state of siege, in a legal context that did not justify the measures.
The state of defense, which restricts individual freedoms and is called to preserve public order or social peace threatened by serious crises. Even more extreme, the state of siege is foreseen in cases of nationally or war, for example. To be decreed, it needs authorization from.
Now they are ‘crazy’
who set up scammer camps in front of military units after the 2022 elections and which asked for intervention by the Armed Forces to prevent Lula’s inauguration in the Presidency of the Republic.
After the election, however, it was Bolsonaro himself that encouraged the creation and maintenance of the scammer camps who spread the country and from which the protesters of the January 8 attacks came from.
“Please, Doctor Paulo Gonet, I didn’t cheer for the worst. If I had cheered for the worst, I wouldn’t have demobilized the truckers back there and, perhaps from my figure, the staff did not absurd,” Bolsonaro said in response to the Attorney General, Paulo Gonet. He also cited Institutional Act No. 5, which revoked a series of rights during the military dictatorship.
“Now, there are always crazy ones there that get that idea, AI-5, military intervention, that the Armed Forces, the military chiefs would never embark on this, because the people were asking there, because it did not fit this and we played the boat,” Bolsonaro said. “So, I’m sorry, respectfully, you, we haven’t encouraged anything abnormal.”
Ballotiness
Asked by Moraes about what would be his foundation to claim that there was fraud in the elections and the electronic ballot boxes, the.
Instead, he pointed to speeches from other politicians with criticism of the polls and his history of defense by the vote in printed in the House of Representatives.
Moraes quoting Bolsonaro ministerial gathering lines on July 5, 2022 and questioned what Bolsonaro foundation was, specifically, to “claim that there was fraud in the elections, in the polls, and that the ministers would be directing the elections.
Mentioning speeches of politicians such as Flávio Dino, today Supreme Minister, and Carlos Lupi (PDT), said that “the suspicion of the ballot box is not something private to me.” For more than once, as he did throughout his government, Bolsonaro also cited report of federal criminal experts with criticism of the electoral system.
