The former president () completes two weeks, this Friday (1st), using restrictions of go and coming, far from social networks and without giving interviews. Since then, he has participated in a few public agendas, seeking to balance himself between political pressure to maintain his exposure and compliance with precautionary measures.
The former president’s allies argue that he maintains the presence in events, albeit carefully, to keep him present in public opinion. They also evaluate that it appears in public, without saying anything, with the anklet in the heel helps in the image of persecution victim they want to pass.
They say Bolsonaro has suffered from the minister’s determinations, the (Supreme Court). Especially for having adopted a more conservative position not to manifest.
The former president is not prohibited from giving interviews, but evaluates that Moraes’s decision was comprehensive in this regard, by maintaining a ban on the replication of excerpts than to say by third parties. Therefore, avoid talking.
According to interlocutors, there is a constant climate of tension around you to avoid interpretations that may give rise to a harsher decision of the court – fear being arrested.
The former president has a routine of working in person at PL headquarters, where he has made a more makeshift schedule. Your allies take businessmen from the states or some other visitor who wants to see him.
The trips, which had been part of everyday life this year until then, were banned by Moraes. And as Congress is in parliamentary recess, there were few visits in these two weeks.
As Bolsonaro cannot approach diplomatic representations, it has been a challenge for the former president’s team a car route that does not approach embassies in Brasilia.
Allies say that despite the severity of the measures, they do not want Bolsonaro stopped at home, because it is not what he wants to do, and fear a possible depression. Today they classify it as resigned but indignant.
The idea is for the former president to continue to attend events whenever possible. The care was redoubled after the threat of arrest of Moraes last week. He was already under precautionary measures and decided, improvised, to speak on the staircase and show his anklet.
The image was reproduced in newspapers and replicated on social networks. The magistrate called for clarification from the defense and threatened to arrest him for non-compliance with judicial determinations.
Bolsonaro retreated. His lawyers said he could not control third parties and promised that he would not talk anymore – what he has been doing since.
The former president always finds the press up and upon leaving the PL in Brasilia. He says that “unfortunately” cannot talk to journalists.
His first public appearance since the threat of arrest was on the 24th, when he attended a service at the Casa da Bonção Church in Taguatinga (DF), alongside Senator Magno Malta (PL-ES) and son Jair Renan, who is a councilman in Balneário Camboriú (SC).
At the time,
Last Tuesday (29), he participated in a-still without speaking. Bolsonaro just waved and smiled at the supporters, without speaking.
Instead of riding a motorcycle, he participated from a small sound car, which went ahead of the motorcycles by a ride from Granja do Torto to the bus station ,.
Surrounding Bolsonaro, the supporters took pictures and asked him to return to the Presidency of the Republic in 2026, ignoring the ineligibility of the former president-the strategy that the himself has also adopted. There were also shouts of “freedom” in a critique of the measures imposed by Alexandre de Moraes.
Bolsonaro assistants said they were not sure of the former president’s participation in the act until just before, because he usually decides at the moment.
Some were opposed to their participation, because something could get out of control and give rise to legal questions about breach of precautionary.
The greatest fear in these public events is with Bolsonaro himself and the possibility of him talking about improvisation, as in the House the previous week.
Others understand that he shows his political strength with supporters and has an injection of mood.
Today they consider that the difficulty will be to balance their exposure between not leaving the public agenda, but being careful not to disrespect any point of Moraes’s decision.
Next Sunday (3), Bolsonarists are calling acts in all states against Moraes and in defense of the former president. He himself will not be able to participate, neither by video nor in person. Bolsonaro is prevented from leaving home on weekends.
