The President (PT) criticized the posture of the minister, (Supreme Federal Court), regarding the evidence against (), during the judgment of the former president in the Court for his participation in the 2022. The Supreme at 27 years in prison on Thursday (11).
“If Minister Fux doesn’t want evidence, it’s his problem,” Lula said in an interview with Band. “I think the tests are full. And the former president, cowardly, articulated everything, thought everything and had no courage, left. Why? Because on the first day there were a lot of people here on the street, he was afraid. So he waited for January 8, thinking we were going to be scared. And what happened is that.”
On Wednesday (10), fux of all the crimes of which he was accused, after and concluded that there was no evidence of the former president with the crimes.
“This has more than proof. Now, every judge sees what they want to see. I just think the judges have to see the truth. If the truth is in the file of that has proven, that’s how people will be judged. I, anyway, hope the verdict and I think we have to take into account the following: this country cannot allow anyone to try to hurt the democratic rule of democratic law,” he said.
“I cannot have a public opinion about the vote of each minister. It is not recommended for a president of the Republic to guess the vote the Supreme Court. I have a personal thesis, but I can not give. I think the Supreme Court will decide regarding the case file. And each minister understands what he wants to understand and gives the vote he wants to give,” said Lula.
“You know, I hope the process is not a process against a man. You are not judging a man because he is a man who has been this president, you are judging the behavior of this man regarding the country’s democracy,” he said.
Lula’s interview was recorded on Thursday morning, the day after the minister’s vote, who was the only one to vote against the conviction. On Thursday, the STF formed a majority to condemn Bolsonaro.
On the other hand, Fux had voted for, the case whistleblower, and former Minister Walter Braga Netto for violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, pointing out that the military performed acts of execution.
Earlier, Lula arrived at a public event at Planalto on Thursday afternoon.
In his vote, which lasted about 12 hours, the minister stated that Bolsonaro’s conduct would not be enough to configure the attempt to overthrow the democratic institutions. However, in the actions of the coup plot against those accused of involvement in the attacks of January 8, 2023, the minister voted for the conviction of hundreds of defendants for attempted coup and other crimes.
Upon arriving at the case of Bolsonaro, after nine hours of reading the vote, Fux explored investigation gaps, such as Bolsonaro’s lack of direct connection with, for example, the plan to assassinate authorities and the.
Although the acts were planned and practiced by pockets and under the speech widely stimulated by the former president, the Moraes and Flávio Dino-use the set of indirect indications to establish the guilt.
Fux, in turn, even compared Bolsonaro’s possible conviction for the episode would be the same as condemning critics of the former president for his stab wound in the 2018 campaign.
