() It will reach the, which starts next Tuesday (2), in a more delicate situation than at the beginning of the process.
The former president starred in a growing tension with the rapporteur of the case in the (Supreme Court), who first imposed an electronic anklet and then house arrest.
Bolsonaro began to respond to a new inquiry, with his son and deputy (PL-SP), in the investigation on suspicion of coercion in the process of the coup plot.
This is the first time the Supreme will judge a former president for attempted coup.
In January this year, Bolsonaro expanded his defense team with the hiring of Celso Vilardi, renowned and experienced criminalist.
Throughout the process, the defense claims that it has not had access to the full material that underlies the complaint, which argues that it is “an undisputed curtailment.”
The attempt to dismantle Lieutenant Colonel’s denunciation is another highlighted point. Lawyers classify it as “unusual” by suggestion of benefits to the whistleblower even after recognizing omissions and ambiguities.
It also says that it is a “contrarssense” to try to impute Bolsonaro “the unfortunate acts of January 8,” stating that the former president left the country before the events, and that his speeches before the trip have repudiated “violent demonstrations or any other illegal act.”
See what weighs against the former president, according to the complaint of the Attorney General’s Office.
Ballot
The PGR says that the criminal organization led by Jair Bolsonaro began on July 29, 2021. That day, the then president made a live in the dawn palace by dismantling his biggest attack on the electronic ballot box.
She says Bolsonaro presented “fanciful allegations” and “unfounded accusations against the electoral system.” According to the Attorney General, Paulo Gonet, the content of the broadcast was “carefully designed” with the support of government members.
“When attacking the electronic ballot boxes, defending the return of printed vote, questioning the smoothness of ministers of the Federal Supreme Court, suggesting manipulations in the counting of votes, extolling popular mobilization as supposed brake to the judiciary and implying the role of the armed forces as guarantee of the order, the then sewn, with calculation and method, legitimizing narrative of the insurrection,” says PGR in their final allegations.
Gonet states that the attack on the polls would not be disregarded, but rather the execution of a strategy focused on the insurrection, which would have continued for months.
Bolsonaro’s defense, in turn, says that distrust at the polls “was not only but also remains on the agenda in society and the National Congress”, citing proposals for implementation of the printed vote.
“The legitimate exercise of having and expressing opinions about the electronic voting system could never be confused with coup execution acts,” he argues.
Undemocratic threats
During the offensive against the ballot box and the Supreme Ministers, Bolsonaro gave public speeches with authoritarian contours indicating that the Armed Forces could act against the institutions. The PGR points out that, in the aforementioned Live against the polls, Bolsonaro also made a series of, even calling what he called “my army” against alleged threats to freedom.
“We have been able to bring patriotism back to the Brazilian people, and there are people bothered by it; they want to destroy it, using the weapons of democracy. The people will not allow it, and I say to you that my army is the Brazilian people. The Green Army is the Army of Brazil,” Bolsonaro said at the time.
The defense of the former president does not counteract these specific points, but maintains that the behaviors imputed to Bolsonaro in relation to the voting system could not be confused with any act of scam execution.
Camp in the army headquarters
The PGR says that the criminal organization led by Bolsonaro was concerned with continuing the feeling of suspicion and popular nonconformity by keeping the scammers in front of the barracks after the 2022 election.
The goal, according to Gonet, was to “maintain the environment conducive to military intervention”. “The belief in the fraud of the election of Lula da Silva was crucial to obtaining popular adherence and enthusiasm to the cause of the undermine of democratic institutions,” he adds.
In a statement to the Supreme, the former president called the supporters who set up camps in front of the “crazy” quarters. “There are always crazy ones there that get that idea, AI-5, military intervention, that the Armed Forces, the military chiefs would never embark on this, because the people were asking there, because it did not fit this and we played the boat,” he said.
Bolsonaro’s defense states that he “had no contact with any of the protesters and, therefore, did not guide or maintained any dialogue with them.”
Scammer meetings
According to the prosecution, Bolsonaro came together with allies and the heads of the Armed Forces after losing the election to evaluate possibilities to reverse the result.
At first, the accusation argues, the expectation would be that the reports of the PL and the Armed Forces would report the occurrence of fraud at the polls. But in the face of the frustrated plan, the former president would then have received a draft to decree a coup, made adjustments and sought support from the military commanders.
“There was a prediction of constitutionally unacceptable intervention measures on the exercise of the judiciary’s activities, elaborating a power structure to be built in the course of the coup, as well as spurious arrests and replacement of public office holders,” says PGR, which points out that the coup was not made possible by the disagreement of the army and aeronautics chiefs.
Bolsonaro’s defense denies the coup plot. He says the complaint speaks of decree minutes that were not found or are in the file, and accuses PGR to promote confusion about the documents to condemn the former president.
“No one has seen a text providing for the arrest of several STF ministers, among other authorities. This story exists exclusively in the whistleblower’s statement, and yet somewhat confused,” he says.
Lawyers also contradict the former president. Bolsonaro told the Supreme Court that he sought the heads of the Armed Forces to discuss “other possibilities within the Constitution.”
It would be in this context, according to the former president, that the hypotheses of GLO (guarantee of law and order), state of defense and state of siege were discussed.
Already the defense says that Bolsonaro only discussed GLO’s decree to contain truckers’ stoppage after the electoral result.
“Whether or not the discussions were diverted to other measures, this is the subjective and personal perception of the brigadeiro [Baptista Júnior]not fact, “adds the lawyers.
