The evangelical bench released a note this Sunday (23) stating that it considers the preventive detention of () to be disproportionate, a situation that, says the text, represents “a fact of relevant political and institutional impact for the Christian segment”.
The text also says that the decision of the minister, of the (Supreme Federal Court), undermines the population’s trust in the institutions.
“The country is experiencing a moment of high tension, and measures of this nature, taken without absolute observance of the principle of proportionality, aggravate divisions and compromise the population’s trust in institutions, and hinder the path to social pacification, generating an environment of legal uncertainty”, says the text.
The evangelical bench is one of the most powerful and active in Congress. It is aligned with Bolsonarism.
In February, deputy Gilberto Nascimento (PSD-SP) in a dispute that renewed the electoral polarization between (PT) and Bolsonaro. Nascimento defeated Otoni de Paula (MDB-RJ), who was once Bolsonaro’s faithful squire in Congress, approached him last year and began to be treated as a government supporter by his opponents.
“We express our solidarity with him and his family, reaffirming that every citizen has the right to due legal process, to full defense, to contradictory proceedings and to treatment compatible with the guarantees provided for in the Constitution of the Republic, especially an elderly person, in poor health, and who does not present any risk of escape”, says the text released this Sunday.
Bolsonaro on orders from Moraes, under the argument of flight risk.
The STF minister based his decision, which responded to a request from the PF endorsed by the Attorney General’s Office, on a vigil of Bolsonaro supporters called for Saturday at the entrance to the condominium where the former president lives, in Brasília, on the escape of other Bolsonaro supporters and on the violation of the electronic ankle bracelet by Bolsonaro himself.
In a custody hearing this Sunday (23), the former president said that he violated his ankle bracelet after the effects of medication that caused him to reach a situation of .
After the hearing, which lasted around 30 minutes, an assistant judge from the (Supreme Federal Court) validated and maintained Bolsonaro’s preventive detention.
