Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro asked this Sunday for his supporters for his supporters during a demonstration in Sao Paulo to protest against the trial in which he is one of the accused for attempted coup and other crimes.
“This is not justice. It is a brutal injustice. So we fight for amnesty, which is a remedy provided for in the constitution and initiative of the Brazilian Parliament. It is the path of pacification … We hope that this amnesty has the support of the other two powers, besides the Legislative Power,” Bolsonaro said during the demonstration in Sao Paulo, alongside his main allies.
Accuses the left and Lula
Although he summoned the protest with the “freedom” motto to demonstrate support for amnesty to prisoners and convicted after the attacks of 08 January 2023 in the city of Brasilia, in his speech, Bolsonaro again accuses the left of being responsible for the destruction in the Brazilian capital, in an episode of political violence that shocked the world.
“On December 30 [de 2022]thank God, I decided to leave Brazil. Something made me get out of Brazil and it wasn’t just not to pass track [transmitir o poder a Lula da Silva] (…) I would never pass track to a thief! The fateful January 8th arrived. A movement, more than clear, orchestrated on the left, “said Bolsonaro without evidence.
“Lula was not in Brasilia the day before, he went to Araraquara, because he knew what was going to happen. So much so that the images of almost 200 cameras disappeared. Everything was broken before those people who were in part at the camp arrived,” he added.
Bolsonaro cannot compete by 2030
The former president appealed to be elected senators and deputies of his support base for the 2026 elections, claiming to believe that anyone who leads Congress will lead Brazil.
“If they give me, on the occasion of next year’s election, 50% of the House and 50% of the Senate, I change the fate of Brazil. If they give me it, it doesn’t matter where you are, here or in, whoever takes the lead will send more than the president,” said Bolsonaro, currently prevented from running for elections by 2030 by the Electoral Justice.
The protest began around 14:00 (18:00 in Lisbon), on Paulista Avenue, in downtown São Paulo.
Alongside Bolsonaro, on top of the main truck were the governors of Sao Paulo, Tarcisio de Freitas, Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema, and Rio de Janeiro, Cláudio Castro, Senators Marcos Rogério, Flávio Bolsonaro and Magno Malta, and other politicians and allies.
Hundreds of protesters followed the discourse of Bolsonaro and allies dressed in the colors of the Brazilian flag (green and yellow) in response to the new appeal to take to the streets and express support for “an act for freedom, for justice.”
Bolsonaro and dozens of allies are being tried by an alleged plot to nullify the results of the 2022 presidential elections. The alleged coup plan will have started after the victory of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, about Bolsonaro who was trying to reelection.
The former president declined to recognize the defeat, disbelieved the system and the electoral process (which led to the ban on re-running public office for eight years) and would have encouraged supporters to assemble camps in front of military bases to protest against the outcome of the presidential and to demand military intervention.
On January 8, 2023, while the new Brazilian president, Lula da Silva, was outside Brasilia visiting the city of Araraquara, in the state of São Paulo, hit by severe rainfall, a group of radicals, supporters of Bolsonaro, influenced by months of misinformation on electronic ballot boxes, invaded and attacked the Planalto Palace, Congress and the Supreme Court, the Congress and the Supreme Court Federal.
Judicial sources estimate that the judgment of this case is completed in the second half of this year.
