Alexandre de Moraes is the most hated judge for the Brazilian extreme right. This Tuesday, Bolsonarism found new reasons for its aversion. Of Moraes, in his status as the trial that is substantiated in the Supreme Federal Court (STF) against Jair Bolsonaro and seven collaborators for the coup attempt of January 8, 2023, stressed that the former president led a “Criminal Organization” with the purpose of staying in the Poder. He stressed that the action plan was printed at the government headquarters, the Planalto Palace.
The sentence must be known before the end of the week. The rapporteur’s allegation had the sign of predictability because last week the coup plot together with the attorney general, Paulo Gonet, had broken down before the STF. De Moraes is not only repudiated by Bolsonarism, which has labeled it as “dictator.” It has been subject to sanctions of the administration of Donald Trump. Beyond the harassment of the United States, for the magistrate there is no “No doubt” of the responsibilities of the former Army and its surroundings. “The group leader makes clear, loudly, in a public way, that he would never accept a defeat at the polls, a democratic defeat in the elections, which would never fulfill the popular will,” said the magistrate, according to which, the conspiracy began in June 2021 when Bolsonaro questioned for the first time the transparency of the presidential contest planned for a year later. Those words were those of a “defendant confessed.”
Among the tests that account for the preparatory actions of the Asonada, De Moraes cited the personal writings of General Augusto Heleno, At that time Head of the Institutional Security Cabinet) Augusto Heleno. “It is not reasonable to consider an army general, with four stars, have an agenda with coup scoring.” He also referred to another of the accused, the then responsible for the intelligence services, the Abin, Alexandre Ramagem, current deputy of a right -wing formation, who stirred the idea of questioning the legitimacy of the electoral victory of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The need for the conviction
The STF, added from Moraes, must “Judge with impartiality and apply justice to each of the specific cases, regardless of threats or coercion, ignoring internal or external pressures. “In that sense, he remarked that” the country’s pacification depends on respect for the constitution, on the application of laws and the strengthening of institutionswithout it being possible to confuse healthy and necessary pacification with the cowardice of appeasement, which means impunity and lack of respect for the Federal Constitution. “The absence of an exemplary conviction” means encouraging new coup d’etat attempts. “
Bolsonaro is accused of crimes of armed criminal organization, attempt to violent abolition of the democratic state of law and attempted coup d’etatin addition to qualified damage and deterioration of protected heritage. The excapitan through his lawyers denied the charges against him. Three generals of the Army, Augusto Helleno, Walter Braga Netto, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, who occupied ministerial positions, and the former Navy, Almir Garnier, have sat on the bench of the accused along with two civilians, Ramagem, head of the spies, Anderson Torres, the former minister of justice, and the personal assistant of the president, the president’s personal assistant.
The magistrate denied a request for the defense of Bolsonaro to cancel the process due to the changes in the statements of Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, Personal Assistant of Bolsonaro, whose testimony before the Federal Police allowed supporting the cause. The request, said De Moraes, “Roza La Mal Mali “. The attacks of which the judge has been subject to the United States, redoubled last Monday, were present again in their speech.
A divergence
The Brazilian media await a debate within the STF. Another of its members, Luiz Fux, has announced discrepancies with De Moraes on preliminary issues presented by the defendants’ defenses. “Fux distanced itself from Moraes throughout the process of the coup plot and became the main commitment of the former president that the eventual condemnation would not be unanimous, which could delay compliance with penalties, with new resources to present,” said the Paulista newspaper ´Folha`. That controversy could impact the scope of the conviction.
Military request
In this context, the same publication has recorded that the military dome submitted a request to the STF for Bolsonaro Do not be arrested in a barracks in case of being convicted to fulfill your grief in a closed regime in the trial. “The expectation in the Supreme and in the Army is that Alexandre de Moraes grants the former home arrest president due to Bolsonaro’s health problems, but this will only happen in the appeal phase. It can be brief, of a few days, but will raise the question of where to embody it.”
The key week of the trial has been preceded last Sunday by manifestations of the extreme right in favor of the ex -president. The request of an amnesty again in the streets of San Pablo and Rio de Janeiro, where the United States flags were exhibited, just on Brazil’s independence day. Bolsonaro, beyond the judicial outcome and the pessimism with which his future awaits, remains a deep dividing factor. A recent survey informs that 42% of those consulted believe, such as Trump, which is the subject of political persecution.
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