The issued note on Thursday (11) stated that the Supreme Court (STF) responded to coup to the former president (PL) and seven other defendants and said that threats such as Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, will not intimidate Brazil’s democracy.
The first class of the condemned the former president at 27 years and 3 months in prison for attempted coup and four other crimes on charges. It is the first time in the history of the country that a former president is.
“The Brazilian judiciary judged, with independence that assures the 1988 Constitution, the first accused by the failed attempt to coup d’état, which had a broad right of defense. Brazilian democratic institutions gave their response to coup. We will continue to defend the sovereignty of the country of aggression and attempts to interference, where they come from,” says the note of Itamaraty.
“Threats such as the one done today by the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, in a demonstration that attacks Brazilian authority and ignores the facts and the blunt evidence of the case, will not intimidate our democracy,” he adds.
According to the Sheetthe President (PT) has not recently made specific guidelines to his ministers on how to react to the conviction of Bolsonaro and the other defendants, but told them on previous occasions that he did not want celebrations or spectacularization. A member of the government states that the idea is also to avoid the victimization of the former president and the intensification of the Bolsonarist spirit.
Minister of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations, Gleisi Hoffmann wrote in the X (former Twitter) that the decision was historic. She stressed to the report that the government has always defended judgment within the legal process and said it is necessary a record of its historical importance so that attacks on democracy will never happen again. According to her, it is also a recognition of the work of the judiciary.
“I think it is not a fact for celebration, but for registration and to celebrate democracy and our sovereignty, which are strengthened,” he says.
Head of diplomacy, Rubio wrote in the X (former Twitter) that the country will respond “properly” to what he again called “Witch Hunt” against Bolsonaro.
“Political persecution by the sanctioned human rights violator continues, while he and other members of the Brazilian Supreme Court have unjustly decided by the arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro,” he said.
“The United States will respond properly to this witch hunt,” added Rubio, who commands the body equivalent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The US President, also spoke and with the majority graduated in the first class of to condemn Bolsonaro for an attempted coup.
The Republican did not say would apply new sanctions to Brazilian authorities, as was questioned, but said the Supreme Court achieved with Bolsonaro what they tried to do with himself in the US.
“I watched the trial. I know him well. As a foreign leader, I thought he was a good president. It’s very surprising that it happened. It’s very similar to what they tried to do with me, but they didn’t get it at all. But I can only say the following: I met him as president of Brazil. He was a good man, and I don’t see it happening,” he said, leaving the White House.
In July, the Trump administration suspended seven other STF ministers: Luis Roberto Barroso, Edson Fachin, Dias Toffoli, Cristiano Zanin, Flavio Dino, Gilmar Mendes and Cármen Lúcia. The PGR (Attorney General of the Republic), Paulo Gonet, also visa suspended.
The US also canceled the visa of their wife and 10 -year -old daughter of the Minister of Health, Alexandre Padilha, in an alleged retaliation to the Mais Médicos program.
