The former president () returned to the hospital for a new surgical procedure, his wife, the former first lady, said this Friday (1) on social media.
The former president’s defense asked the minister of the (Supreme Federal Court) on the 21st for authorization to carry out surgery on the former president’s right shoulder, which is .
According to lawyers, Bolsonaro has persistent pain and functional incapacity in his shoulder, requiring him to take painkillers every day.
“We are already on the way to the hospital. I ask my brothers in Christ to pray for my Galician’s surgical procedure,” Michelle wrote this Friday.
Bolsonaro is under house arrest after being convicted in the coup plot case. Moraes authorized him to leave jail and stay at home because of health problems.
The request for house arrest from the sentence for attempted coup d’état. The sentence of 27 years and three months in prison began to be served in November last year, initially in the Federal Police superintendence in Brasília and later in the so-called Papudinha.
The former president went to serve his sentence at home after leaving the hospital in the second half of May, when he had been . Furthermore, the former president of the Republic has undergone a series of surgeries since 2018 due to the knife attack he suffered during that year’s election campaign.
Bolsonaro is expected to spend less time in prison than expected. On Thursday (30), the National Congress.
At the end of last year, the Legislature passed the project that reduces the sentences of Bolsonaro and others convicted in the coup plot process. President Luiz Inácio da Silva (PT), however, vetoed it. Congress’s deliberation on Friday was to reject Lula’s veto and make the proposal come into force.
The vote involved a maneuver by the president of Congress (União-AP) to make it possible to reduce sentences. He invalidated articles of the project, which came into force after the Legislature approved dosimetry.
The Dosimetry PL brings reductions in both the total sentences and the minimum time in a closed regime for those convicted of the coup plot and for the attacks on the headquarters of Power on January 8, 2023.
In Bolsonaro’s case, the measure reduces the time he will spend under a closed regime from the current range of 6 to 8 years to between 2 years and 4 months and 4 years and 2 months, depending on the interpretation.
The President of the Republic has the right to veto projects approved by the Legislature, but Congress can reject the veto and force the text to come into force if there is a majority of votes from deputies and senators.
In Thursday’s deliberation, . Even congressmen from parties that stood against the will of the President of the Republic.
The overturning of the veto was a defeat for Lula, and came the day after the president suffered one of the biggest setbacks of his political career. On Wednesday (29), the Senate will open a vacancy in the STF.
It was the first time that a President of the Republic was unable to nominate someone chosen for a vacancy on the Supreme Court. At the time, Floriano Peixoto was in charge, in the first years after the proclamation of the Republic.
