The former president () may be ineligible until 2062 after being attempted to coup.
This is because it will be applied to the ineligibility of 8 years from the end of the penalty. The former president was already prevented from running elections by 2030 for convictions of the (Superior Electoral Court) for abuse of power.
The deadline outside the elections is provided for in the Clean Record Law, which applies the penalty in the case of conviction given by a collegiate judicial body.
Last week, Congress a flexibility of the law, which still awaits sanction or veto of the president (PT). But the change would not apply to Bolsonaro for excluding from the new rule crimes committed by criminal organizations.
Bolsonaro was convicted of an attempted coup d’état, in addition to crimes of armed criminal organization, attempted abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, damage qualified to public assets and deterioration of listed heritage.
The ministers have decided that he will fulfill 24 years and nine months of imprisonment and the rest of detention. The initial sentence regime should be closed.
They were convicted of the same criminal types, to penalties of 2 to 26 years, the other seven defendants of the so-called crucial core of the case, all former heal of high positions in the former president’s government. The ineligibility of 8 years after serving the sentence will also be applied to the other convicts.
The ex-president’s conviction takes place amid the pressure of allies by an amnesty in Congress and is inserted in a political polarization environment with implications in next year’s presidential election.
Bolsonaro claims to be a victim of political persecution and has always denied leading a coup plot, claiming only that he argued, but never implemented, actions “within the four lines of the Constitution.”
His eldest son of his former president and spokesman in the political world since Bolsonaro began to serve house arrest, on August 4, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) said on Thursday night (11) that his father before the sentence and has preached the union of the right to the 2026 elections.
“The only certainty we have is that Lula will not be president in 2027, because the right will be more united than ever, to rescue Brazil from the hands of this gang,” said Flávio.
Minister Flávio Dino made new criticism on Thursday to the amnesty proposal to those accused of plotting a blow and cited the murder of the influencer. “There is an idea, according to which amnesty and forgiveness is equal to peace. And forgiveness was done in the United States, not peace,” said Dino, who has already stated that the crimes imputed to the core of the coup plot “are unsustible of amnesty.”
In January, President Donald Trump signed a decree forgiving a number of people accused of crimes related to the capitol invasion. “Sometimes peace is obtained by the proper functioning of the repressive instances of the state,” said Dino.
