The governor (Republicans) works behind the scenes to try to convince ministers of the (Federal Supreme Court) to keep () under house arrest and avoid a possible transfer to after the .
The articulation occurs amid demands from Bolsonarists both for attacks on the court and for a more emphatic public defense of the former president’s innocence, for leading the attempted coup d’état.
Tarcísio is concerned, however, about preventing the work from gaining the spotlight. According to one of the governor’s interlocutors, he claims that those who work in silence operate better and that only the people who need to know about their movements are aware of them.
Although the governor attacked the minister at the Bolsonaro demonstration on the 7th of September, on Avenida Paulista, calling him a dictator and saying that, Bolsonaro’s allies believe that Tarcísio resolved the uneasiness with the court and had power to influence.
In July, another performance by Tarcísio in favor of Bolsonaro ended in setback. After visiting the former president, the governor called members of the STF and, in the version of the ministers’ interlocutors, under the argument that he could intercede with Donald Trump in the tariff crisis imposed on Brazil. The judges found the idea strange.
Tarcísio, however, maintains to his allies the version that he never asked for the document and that the conversation had just been a prospection about what he and Bolsonaro could do to mitigate the surcharges.
The governor was contacted by the reporter to talk about the new movement, but made no comments.
Over the weekend, an article published by Sheet authored by Fabio Wajngarten, former Communications Secretary of the Presidency, stated that . Among Bolsonarists, one of the comments in response to the text was that Tarcísio is the one who should have made a demonstration of this type.
Furthermore, a statement by Tarcísio on social media saying that Brazil needs to “change the CEO” went down badly among Bolsonaro’s supporters, in a direct attack on (PT). For one wing of the group, the phrase is yet another indication that the governor is preparing his presidential campaign — officially, he is a pre-candidate for re-election in .
In addition to defending the former president’s innocence, his allies argue that Bolsonaro’s health is fragile and that he requires special care, with severe hiccups caused by complications from the surgeries he underwent as a result of the knife attack he suffered in 2018.
The STF published this Tuesday (18) the ruling that rejected Bolsonaro’s first appeal against his conviction, which opened the deadline for the former president’s defense to present a new appeal. Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the case, is the one who will define where Bolsonaro will be imprisoned.
Bolsonaro is 70 years old. Papuda’s elderly wing has the capacity to house 177 inmates, but maintains 340, according to a report published by Sheet.
Moraes’ team, however, is evaluating two spaces in the complex that could receive the former president: PDF 1 (Federal District Penitentiary number 1), which has a wing designed to house vulnerable prisoners and where politicians have already been imprisoned, and the 19th Military Police Battalion of the Federal District, known as “Papudinha” because it is located in front of Papuda.
