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Defendant in the Supreme Federal Court (STF) for firing offenses to Alexandre de Moraes, Federal Deputy Otoni de Paula (MDB-RJ) met with the minister last month to apologize for cursing him as “trash”, “shame”, “sewage” and “despot”. The episode can lead to the mandate of the parliamentarian.
Alexandre de Moraes
As reported by the blog, Otoni de Paula handed over to the minister A letter written by hand asking for “forgiveness” And he recognizes that, “taken with strong emotion,” he eventually “exceeded” by firing offenses and curses against the magistrate in two Lives.
At the time of the offenses in 2020, Otoni de Paula was deputy leader of the government of Jair Bolsonaro in the House-and had become the target of a decision of the minister who determined the breach of bank secrecy of 11 parliamentarians under the inquiry of undemocratic acts. Otoni also criticized another decision by Moraes, which prohibited blogger Oswaldo Eustáquio from using social networks.
The parliamentarian ended up leaving the position of vice-leader soon after, under the justification that his opinion about Moraes was “personal” and his “responsibility”-and further claimed that he did not want the attacks to be interpreted as an opinion of the Planalto Palace.
Sought by the blog, the deputy said he has “full conscience” of the error and reported the meeting with Moraes, which lasted about 15 minutes.
“The minister welcomed me in his office, it was very kind and respectful. I believe there was the meeting of two human beings who understood that when we are under tensions, we can make mistakes. I am aware that I made the minister with inappropriate adjectives. At that moment I know that I acted under strong emotion and the minister understood this, enabling me the opportunity for a non -penalty agreement.” column team.
“I told the minister that I would continue to exercise my parliamentary right to position myself against decisions that I do not agree from the Supreme Court, but that these criticisms would always be institutional and never personal. The minister’s response surprised me when he told me that criticizing the decisions of the Supreme Court was never the problem but the personal attacks.”
For the deputy, “it is not good for democratic dialogue” among representatives of powers when the “boundary of criticism” is exceeded with “personal attacks”.
“I am still critical of conducting the surveys moved by Minister Alexandre de Moraes, but I understand that there will be no way to get out of this institutional crisis without the dialogue through dialogue,” he said.
Otini de Paula was denounced by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) of Augusto Aras in July 2020 for defamation, injury and coercion in the course of the process. In 2023, the Supreme Plenary accepted the accusation and made the defendant. Moraes declared himself prevented and did not participate in the trial.
There is still no forecast of when the court will decide whether to acquit it or condemns it to the case, which may lead to the loss of mandate. The rapporteur of the criminal action is Minister Kassio Nunes Marques, nominated for the Supreme Court by Bolsonaro.
In the letter sent to the Moraes Office, obtained by the blog, Otoni de Paula says he wrote the document “in order to ask for forgiveness” to the Supreme Minister. The term “forgiveness”, by the way, appears twice along the letter – in introduction and closure.
“I heard about the decision of your excellence (the breach of secrecy) through the press. At that moment, I saw my honor as a politician, pastor and head of household being exposed to public opinion, so used to associating such judicial decisions with corruption or something. For living from my image and knowledge that I have ruled my public and private life in honesty, I made the decision to open a live, and to defend me, and to defend me, and to defend me, and to defend me and to defend me, and to defend me, and to Precisely, at that moment, taken with strong emotion, I ended up exceeding myself and ended up addressing you with a level of disrespect that is ashamed today, ”wrote the parliamentarian.
“Minister, I have been a pastor for more than 30 years of the Assemblies of God, so such a behavior and offensive vocabulary are unacceptable by the Church, but I was overcome by the fearless and seduced by that moment of attack on institutions, a sad page in Brazilian politics. Therefore I want to demonstrate to you my deep repentance, asking for you to do you.”
In the outcome of the letter, the deputy makes a personal appeal to the Supreme Minister in recognizing the risks of losing his mandate because of his conduct.
“I am aware that the judgment that I will be submitted in the plenary of the Supreme Court, by offenses to you, can establish the loss of my parliamentary mandate and the end of my political career, but I beg you to help me not to live this shame before my children and church,” said Otoni de Paula.
Sought, the Supreme Court did not comment.
