The minister of the (Supreme Federal Court) suspended this Wednesday (8) the criminal action against Bolsonarist Gustavo Gayer (-GO) for slander, insult and defamation.
The decision leads to the vote on the 15th on the suspension
The complaint had been received in full, and unanimously, by the First Panel of the court in November 2024, making the parliamentarian a defendant.
By suspending the process, the prescription is also suspended for the duration of the deputy’s term of office.
The provision that the Chamber can suspend the progress of a criminal action against a deputy is in article 53 of the Federal Constitution. The same instrument was used in May this year, against the deputy (PL-RJ) in the coup plot.
“The requirements of a very personal character (immunity applicable only to parliamentarians) and temporal (crimes committed after diplomacy), provided for in the constitutional text, are clear and express, in the sense of the application of this immunity to parliamentarians and to criminal offenses after diplomacy”, said Moraes in the order.
The deputy is also being investigated by the Federal Police, in another case, by na. The deputy was the target of a search and seizure on October 25 in an operation carried out in this investigation.
In another message to the STF, 268 deputies voted in favor of the suspension, while 167 voted to maintain the progress of the case. Approval required at least half of the deputies (257 of 513).
The vote takes place amid the clash between the Chamber and the STF over actions against parliamentarians — the dissatisfaction of deputies with what they consider to be interference by the Judiciary in their mandates led to the approval, last month, of the call, which ended up buried in the .
Gayer is accused by the senator (PSD-GO) of attacking him and the senator (PSB-GO) on social media after the victory of (PSD-MG) for the presidency of the Senate, in 2023.
In the video published on the networks, the deputy said that the senators were “two bums” who “turned their backs on the people in exchange for [cargo em] commission”.
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