Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (-RJ) stated this Friday (7) that his father, the former president (PL), has been the target of persecution and that he will be elected president of the Republic again, even after the Federal Supreme Court () has .
Flávio participated via video call in the inauguration of the PL’s new regional headquarters in Atibaia, in the interior of São Paulo, presided over by his lawyer Frederick Wassef, who . The senator was announced at the event throughout the week and was on his way to the city, but had to return to Brasília for unexplained reasons.
“You can be sure: we will not give up on our Brazil. President Bolsonaro is going through this moment of persecution, but we will respond to everyone who today promotes this relentless, unfair and unfair persecution. Because we will go up the ramp in Brasília together for the election of our president Bolsonaro”, declared Flávio after Wassef called him.
On Friday afternoon, the First Panel of the STF unanimously rejected Bolsonaro’s appeal, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for attempted coup d’état and four related crimes. He has been under house arrest since August for failing to comply, in the court’s assessment, with precautionary measures imposed by Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
Present at the event, the national president of PL, , said he believes that the president of , , can help reverse Bolsonaro’s situation. “I have faith that Trump will change that,” he said.
Valdemar did not detail how the American could help, but stated that the request for amnesty for Bolsonaro and those convicted of January 8th will serve as an instrument of pressure. “Well, going forward. We’re still going to have to vote on amnesty. We’re going to have a very big war and we’re going to approve the amnesty,” he added.
Bolsonaro’s allies are concerned that, once resources are exhausted, Moraes will order the former president to serve his sentence in a closed regime at the Papuda Penitentiary Complex. Last week, the minister to check the facilities.
Renato Bolsonaro, one of his brothers, even declared that Justice.
Valdemar, however, said that if Bolsonaro goes to jail, he will be elected in the first round in 2206. “If they put him in Papuda, he will go to 55% [de votos]”, these.
Unhappy with the performance of Moraes and other STF ministers, Bolsonaro supporters plan to invest in candidacies in the next elections. The aim is to guarantee a majority in the house to be able to vote on the impeachment of a Supreme Court minister.
“In the next elections, even though Bolsonaro suffers this injustice, we will have around 120 federal deputies. And more than 25 senators. With other allied parties, we will have a majority in the Federal Senate. We will be together and it’s just victory after victory. These injustices that Bolsonaro is suffering, this humiliation that we have been through of having Bolsonaro thrown in the wrong place, in the wrong instance, you can be sure that it will not work. Evil never wins over good. Bad people pay and pay in this case life”, said Valdemar.
PL leader in , (RJ) echoed Flávio and Valdemar both in the argument that Bolsonaro could return to the Presidency, even if he is ineligible, and in the possibility of being able to elect the majority of senators in the next elections.
“No one will stop the right in 2026. Our president Jair Bolsonaro will return and we will have everything Valdemar said, the largest army in the Senate to put the STF in its rightful place. And the largest right-wing bench in history”, stated the deputy.