The licensed deputy, son of the former president, said on Friday (18) that the minister of (Supreme Federal Court) doubled the bet against his father in a publication on social networks.
Then, in a statement released in English and Portuguese, he said Moraes is “trying to criminalize” US President Donald Trump and the US government.
Earlier, it made it one. so that your movements are monitored. The former president responds to the lawsuit, accused of leading a coup plot. The minister pointed to Eduardo Bolsonaro’s movement in the US and retaliation of Trump as motivations for the decision.
“Alexandre de Moraes doubled the bet and, after Bolsonaro’s video for yesterday, he ordered Bolsonaro today: wearing an electronic anklet, not leaving home between 7 am and 7 am, not wearing social networks, not communicating with foreign ambassadors and diplomats, not approaching embassies, not talking to other people under investigation (me and my brother Carlos are investigated),” Eduardo in his X -year -old Twitter.
The original publication was in English, translated by Sheet.
In the note, Eduardo calls Moraes “Gangster de Toga” and says he makes political persecution.
“In practice, Alexandre de Moraes is trying to criminalize Trump and the US government itself. As it is powerless before them, he decided to take my father a hostage. With this, besides attacking Brazilian democracy, he still irresponsibly deteriorates diplomatic relations between Brazil and the United States – an act of institutional sabotage of unpredictable consequences,” he said.
Eduardo is us, where he tries to play American public opinion and the country’s government against the Brazilian authorities that investigate his father and against the management of (PT).
The video to which Eduardo refers was published by Bolsonaro on Thursday (17). In it, the former president thanks Trump for a support message.
The leadership of the opposition in the House of Representatives issued a note that claims to have an “authoritarian climb” in Brazil. It mentions the fact that the decision was taken after the National Congress recesses, “when the representatives of the people are absent from Brasilia and without means of immediate institutional reaction.”
“This is a serious episode of abuse of power, marked by the instrumentalization of institutions for political persecution,” says the note issued by the parliamentary bloc. The text says that Brazil is consolidating a “exception regime” and that Moraes concentrates “disproportionate powers”.
According to the opposition, Bolsonaro is an elderly man with serious health problems that offers no risk of escape. In addition, the text mentions the diplomatic stress between Brazil and the United States because of the rates imposed on Brazilian exports – a measure that Donald Trump called Bolsonaro’s trial.
“This authoritarian climb, without any institutional brake, puts Brazil against modern democracies and weakens legal certainty, freedom of expression and republican pillars,” the note says.
The former president is the target of this Friday. In addition to facing a lawsuit on charges of leading a coup plot, it is also the focus of other investigations conducted by the agency.
Bolsonaro will have to, by order of the Supreme Court. He was taken to the Federal Police headquarters in Brasilia for the installation of the equipment.
With the anklet, the former president will be monitored by the authorities on the eve of the, who may take him to prison.
