Vice-President of the Republic from 2019 to 2022, the reserve general and senator (-RS) said that if he had not been passed away by in the ruling plate in the past election, (PL) was reelected.
Thus, he added, neither the former president nor Braga Netto would live today the Calvary of the process in which they respond for attempted coup, in which both are defendants-the second, also a reserve general, is in a military unit in Rio.
“When Bolsonaro chose, I no longer wanted to be his deputy, he, I didn’t participate in anything else. I think if I had been his candidate for his deputy, we would have won,” said Mourão.
The senator general answered a question from the report about being scanned turned out to be a blessing to him. After giving the unusual response, Mourão was asked about the hypothetical situation he presented. In case of ruling victory, then what Bolsonaro, Braga Netto and other military will face now?
“Nothing, nothing had happened, everyone was happy in life, wow,” he said, between laughs.
The report asked Mourão to discuss more about the topic, explaining what leads him to believe that if he were the vice in 2022 the result would have been different, but he did not respond.
The stance reveals how the senator seeks to differentiate himself from Braga Netto, who has been a friend for over 40 years and who has been publicly defended.
Mourão is a rare case of the Bolsonaro government’s dome general not to have been in court because of the coup conspiracies at the end of his term.
In the action that runs in (Supreme Federal Court), the senator was nominated as a witness by four defendants: also generals Augusto Heleno, Braga Netto and Paulo Sérgio Nogueira and more Bolsonaro. All are part of core 1 of the case, denounced by the Attorney General’s Office as leaders of the criminal organization that fought a blow to prevent Lula’s possession.
In the testimony to the Court, on May 23, Mourão said that he met a few times with the defendants during the transition of government, but never heard of institutional breakdown measures or to contest the electoral result.
He took the opportunity to praise Braga Netto: “Our families are friends”; “He built an extraordinary military career throughout a lifetime dedicated to the army”; “My son is his volleyball partner, just like me”.
About Augusto Heleno, the senator said in the testimony that the general is “an icon of our generation” and “a man who always gave the example.”
There was the same deference to Bolsonaro – it was expected to be expected. Even before half of the term, the captain made it clear to. In an interview in 2021, he explained the rupture. “Mourão does his job, has a great independence. Sometimes it gets in the way a little, but the vice is the same brother -in -law, right. You get married and have to put up with your brother -in -law on your side, you can’t send your brother -in -law away.”
Mourão admitted that he had a cold war with Bolsonaro during his term and complained in 2022 of never being sought by Bolsonaro to wash his dirty clothes. “It is obvious that I would have had a more detailed conversation with him about my role to avoid the shocks that occurred and did not have to have happened.”
As for friend Braga Netto, the former vice considers his arrest “unfair and absurd, because he was not obstructing justice.” “But within the view Alexandre de Moraes has, he is symbolic. He keeps a four -star general arrested.”
In April, Mourão was one of the headquarters of the 1st Army Division in Vila Militar, Rio, where the general has been detained since December in a room.
The former vice had 40 minutes available to talk to his replacement on the pocket plate in a room near the. According to Mourão, they talked “amenities” and did not deal with the judicial process. “I found him very, thinner, obviously. He was tanned, because he has an hour of sun to do gym every day.”
The senator took a gift to Braga Netto an English book, which he had bought for himself and already read, “The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II” (The Generals: MacArthur, Marshall and the victory in World War II), the same author of the bestseller “Forrest Gump”, which gave rise to the movie.
The present volume tells the story of three US Army generals with a determining acting for the allies’ victory in the largest war conflict in history.
Mourão thus justified the present: “Because it is a book on leadership, well written. And it is a section that raises the morals of those who need to rise to morals.”
