The deputy (-MG) responded this Saturday (21) to criticism made by , said he is used to , defended it and asked for focus on the common enemy.
The deputy visited Bolsonaro in Papudinha this morning for around two hours. The former president has been detained there since January 15, when the minister of the STF (Supreme Federal Court) Alexandre de Moraes ordered his transfer from the Federal Police headquarters in Brasília.
In an interview with SBT News, Eduardo spoke of Nikolas and Michelle’s amnesia and said that he considers their engagement in Flávio Bolsonaro’s campaign to be insufficient.
Nikolas denied that he and Michelle have amnesia and recalled what he called unfair attacks.
“Given the situations that are happening, we have his father in prison, suffering health difficulties, you have the people of the 8th [de Janeiro] arrested and needing the veto on dosimetry to be overturned, you have the STF involved in several scandals, you have Lula literally doing everything to destroy this country and the priority is to attack us? So, that says a lot more about him than it does about me,” he said.
“I’m used to beating myself up. They’ve been in this saga for over three years. But let Michelle live her ordeal. She, above all, is a wife, she’s a mother, who has to take care of a daughter, who is coming here every day preparing food for her 70-year-old husband, who is unjustly imprisoned.”
“I think Eduardo is not well”, he added.
Nikolas also visited Bolsonaro in November, while he was still under house arrest. At the time, Moraes demanded explanations from the former president’s defense after the release of images, captured by TV Globo, which showed the deputy using his cell phone during the meeting.
Even in prison. PL parliamentarians reported that the former president has been discussing, from prison, the electoral scenario and the party’s strategies for this year’s elections, including state disputes and the composition of the tickets in the conservative camp.
Senators have taken advantage of visits to Bolsonaro to discuss the elections. On the 18th, Carlos Portinho (PL-RJ) and Bruno Bonetti (PL-RJ) were with the former president at Complexo da Papuda, in Brasília.
After the meeting, Portinho stated that the former president believes that his candidacy for the Senate “better represents the conservative camp” in Rio de Janeiro. According to him, Bolsonaro considers a possible candidacy by Governor Cláudio Castro to be legitimate, but understands that the dispute for the Senate could be the main strategic space for the party in the state.
Earlier that day, senator Bruno Bonetti, who occupies Romário’s seat, was also at the scene. Councilor Carlos Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), son of the former president, stated that he found his father “sleepy and dejected” and said that he continues to question the arrest.
Bolsonaro is serving 27 years and three months in prison. The determination is that he remains in a closed regime for the crimes of armed criminal organization, coup d’état, attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, deterioration of listed assets and qualified damage to the Union’s assets.
