The (-SP) must become a defendant in the (Federal Supreme Court) with the this Friday (14) over its .
The case against the son of the former president (PL) has been marked by . He refused to hire a lawyer to defend himself and had no contact with the public defender responsible for the case.
From , Eduardo has indicated to his allies that he will not participate in any phase of the process and will be judged in absentia. The (Union Public Defender’s Office) has been stating that it will defend the accused in the Supreme Court.
Two court ministers told the Sheet that the case against Eduardo, if opened, must be filed during the first half of 2026, with the expectation of completion before the electoral process. The forecast depends on the Chamber, as deputies can suspend criminal action against the parliamentarian.
In the Supreme Court, the reading is that Eduardo will be revoked for faults and, in this scenario, even a setback for the court in the Chamber may last for a short time.
The trial that will begin this Friday is restricted to analyzing whether the complaint from the (Attorney General’s Office) brings minimal evidence of authorship and materiality that justify the opening of criminal proceedings against Eduardo.
The first to vote will be the minister-rapporteur. The remaining members will have until November 25th to enter their votes in the virtual plenary.
Eduardo Bolsonaro and the journalist were accused by the PGR of organizing actions with the United States government with the aim of intervening in the processes against former president Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil.
Attorney General Paulo Gonet saw the duo’s action as a crime of coercion, which consists of “using violence or serious threats, with the aim of favoring one’s own interest or that of others, against authority, party, or any other person who works or is called upon to intervene in judicial proceedings”.
The case against the two ended up being disbanded. Moraes ordered that Eduardo be summoned by notice, on the grounds that he was hindering the progress of the process; Figueiredo has lived in the United States for more than ten years and will be notified personally, through international legal cooperation.
The PGR’s indictment says that Eduardo and Figueiredo, since receiving the complaint against Bolsonaro at the Supreme Court, began to articulate successive and continued actions to intervene in the criminal process.
“The purpose was to free Jair Bolsonaro, and also Paulo Figueiredo himself, from criminal conviction for the crimes that led to the opening of criminal proceedings”, stated the attorney general, Paulo Gonet in the coercion complaint. “The threats were reiterated several times, on different occasions,” he added.
The prosecutor claims that Eduardo and Figueiredo tried to exploit the relationship they maintain with members of the American government and advisors and advisors to President Donald Trump and that they used this network of contacts to embarrass the actions of the Supreme Court.
They induced, says the accusatory piece, “the adoption of retaliatory measures by the North American government against Brazil and against Brazilian authorities, with the aim of compelling the Supreme Court to close the cases without convictions, especially against Jair Bolsonaro.”
This pressure also had the objective of getting the National Congress to approve an amnesty project that covered Bolsonaro, says Gonet.
“Those accused threatened the judicial authorities and other Powers with the promise that they would obtain sanctions from North American authorities willing to hinder and ruin their civil lives, even in Brazil, if the criminal process did not have the outcome they wanted or if the amnesty —necessarily extended and primarily to Jair Bolsonaro— was not guided and achieved in the National Congress.”
One of the practical effects of Eduardo and Figueiredo’s actions in the United States was the application, by the American government, against Minister Alexandre de Moraes and his wife.
In a joint statement released after the complaint, the duo said that the accusation revealed the “ongoing political persecution”. They still say that the accusation is “fake” and call Paulo Gonet’s team at the PGR “Moraes’ lackeys”.
Public defender Antonio Ezequiel Inácio Barbosa, responsible for the case, asks the Supreme Court that the coercion charge not be brought forward because the criminal type requires violence or serious threat to be constituted.
“Statements about political facts, even if critical, acidic or blunt, do not constitute violence or a serious threat. Specifically, the latter presupposes a promise of future evil that depends on the will and power of the person threatening. If the agent does not have the power to carry out the announced evil, there is no serious threat, but a mere opinion or prognosis about future events”, he states.
