The federal deputy (PL) said this Friday (14) that the minister, of the (Supreme Federal Court), wants to prevent the right from having a majority in the Senate in 2026, which is why he voted to make him a defendant in the court.
This afternoon, the First Panel will receive the complaint against the accused of coercion. In addition to Moraes, ministers and . Cármen Lúcia, the other member of the First Panel, has until the 25th to present her position.
The son of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) claims to be suffering political persecution from the judge and says that the accusation, in fact, would be against the Donald Trump government, in the USA, for having imposed sanctions against Brazilian products and authorities.
“As a crime of coercion requires an illicit means — and the [Lei] Magnitsky is not illegal, it is kind of legal in the United States — and an instrument that is at my disposal, and I do not sign Magnitsky, nor do I sign the tariff, Trump and the secretariat sign it. [dele]these are notoriously crimes that are not my responsibility. I could never be accused of this,” he said in a video posted on social media.
“Moraes is using politics within the court to eliminate the possibility of the right having a majority in the Senate next year”, he added, citing himself and federal deputy Gustavo Gayer (PL-GO), who was the target of criminal action in the STF.
The former president’s son, in an interview with CNN, compared himself to his father, who is convicted and under house arrest, and classified the process as a “legal gimmick”.
“This legal gimmick is just the court’s attempt to make me ineligible at all costs. They already did this to my father and now they want to do it to me,” he said.
Eduardo Bolsonaro and the businessman were accused by the PGR of organizing actions with the government with the aim of intervening in the processes against 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 prosecutor claims that Eduardo and Figueiredo tried to exploit the relationship they maintain with members of the American government and the president’s advisors and advisors and that they used this network of contacts to constrain the Supreme Court’s actions.
At this stage of the process, the STF ministers analyze whether the complaint from the (Attorney General’s Office) brings minimal signs of authorship and materiality that justify the opening of criminal proceedings against Eduardo. With the confirmation of the result, the former president’s son will become a defendant and will answer to the Supreme Court for the crimes of which he was accused.
