The former federal deputy was booed on Thursday (26) when landing at the International Airport, in Confins (MG). He heard the former president’s supporters () shouting “thief” in sequence.
Although they arrived in a minute break, the two did not disclose any joint agenda.
Cunha, who was a federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro, artifice of the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff (PT) and the target of Operation Lava Jato, tries to make his candidacy for Minas Gerais in 2026 after not being elected by Sao Paulo in 2022.
Among the possible acronyms is Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party (PL), which holds a state meeting on Thursday afternoon in the Pampulha region of Belo Horizonte.
Cunha was mayor between February 2015 and May 2016, when he was removed from office by the Federal Supreme Court on the grounds of avoiding the interference of the deputy in criminal investigations.
He had his mandate revoked by the House in September 2016, a few days after Dilma’s definitive departure from the presidency. The reason for the removal was a breach of parliamentary decorum, on charges of having lied to the Petrobras CPI during a statement in 2015, while denying an account holder abroad.
As a result of Lava Jato, Cunha was arrested in a closed regime from October 2016 until April 2021. He was affiliated with the Rio de Janeiro MDB.
In May 2023, that of the former president of the operation.
In 2021, he had two other annulled sentences-an issued by the former judge, today senator by União Brasil do Paraná, and another by the Federal Court in Brasilia.
In 2022, he launched a candidacy for PTB-SP and was able to suspend his ineligibility, but only obtained 5,000 votes and was not elected.
His daughter, applied for União Brasil in Rio de Janeiro and was elected federal deputy, with 75.8 thousand votes.
In the request for registration of his candidacy for federal deputy, Cunha, 420% higher than eight years earlier, 90% from money he had in Switzerland and who had been repatriated to Brazil to pay repairs determined by the court.
