The Attorney General of the Republic, arrives on Tuesday (2) at the trial of the coup plot, the most prominent since assuming the position, with the President’s (PT) endorsement of his performance and in line with the rapporteur of the case, the minister, of the Supreme Court (STF).
Gonet was in advance, at a term of two more years in office. The initiative was dealt with by assistants of the President of the Republic as an attempt to give strength and legitimacy to the judgment of great political and institutional pressure and that can lead the former president () to prison.
It will not be the first time that Gonet will defend sanctions to Bolsonaro in a trial of which the minister is part. The first time was in 2023, in the (Superior Electoral Court), when he was still deputy attorney general electoral. Moraes was, at the time, president of the TSE.
The action that was tried at the time dealt with the meeting convened by Bolsonaro in July 2022 with foreign ambassadors at the Alvorada Palace, official residence of the Presidency of the Republic.
Gonet defended at the time the ineligibility of the former president and stated that the meeting with ambassadors was serious, with the aim of creating distrust about the elections and delegitimizing a possible negative result at the polls for the then president.
By 5 votes to 2, the TSE decided at the time.
In October of the same year, he also spoke in favor of the former president’s ineligibility because he understood that Bolsonaro used the commemorations of the Independence Bicentenary in 2022 to campaign with public money. The former president was convicted in this action.
Gonet’s performance at the time legitimizing him to be seen as a successor of-which was close to Bolsonaro-for the PGR (Attorney General’s Office).
Moraes, alongside the STF minister, were the biggest guarantors of Gonet’s choice for office in his first term. He was Gilmar’s partner in a higher education institution.
From the outset, Gonet sought to work at PGR with discretion and avoid controversy, despite working with cases that inevitably leave him in relevance.
He said he did not seek “stages or spotlight” in a speech that was opposed to the profile of the attorneys general who acted during the, criticized by Lula.
But he also countered the rim, which is seen as silent on Bolsonaro -related investigations.
“There is no full respect for dignity without also recognizing the responsibility of each for the acts they practice and omit.
Lula’s choice for Gonet’s reappointment had little internal opposition within the Federal Public Prosecution Service. ANPR (National Association of Attorneys of the Republic) itself has given up on forming its traditional triple list with candidates to send to the President of the Republic.
In a statement, the entity wished Gonet success and said that, in the current condition, “the list would no longer fulfill its purpose, given the already formalized choice.”
In February, the Attorney General presented the play that allowed the scammer plot.
He pointed to the former president as leader of the coup attempt. Accusations include crimes whose maximum penalties, added to 43 years in prison.
In the complaint against Bolsonaro, Gonet accused the former president of committing the crimes of attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law and a coup d’état, damage qualified by violence and serious threat against heritage, deterioration of overturned heritage and participation in a criminal organization.
The prosecution also pointed out the existence of a criminal organization that “had leaders the President of the Republic himself and his candidate for vice president, General Braga Neto.”
“Both accepted, encouraged, and performed acts typified in the criminal legislation of attack against the legal good of existence and independence of powers and the rule of democratic law.”
The accusation should be reiterated by Gonet this Tuesday, when he will have two hours to make his demonstration in the case, before the defenses present their arguments.
Gonet’s renewal will still have to pass the Senate approval, with Sabbath at the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission) and then vote in the Plenary, having at least 41 votes.
