Brazil is expected to find out if this Tuesday Supreme Election Court (TSE) will disqualify the ex-president for eight years Jair Bolsonaro in the exercise of public office for abuse of authority. The former Army captain seemed to anticipate the outcome of a vote that the press predicted to be against. In an interview with the São Paulo newspaper folhaBolsonaro publicly denied attacking the voting system and assured him that they were trying to punish him for “working” at the head of the far-right government. “Everyone says I won’t be fit. I will not despair. What can I do? I am disabled until proven otherwise. I will continue to do my part,” he said. On the other hand, his wife and Former First Lady Michelle Take the initiative in the event that TSE finally gets approval in the 2026 elections. Anyone can be a candidate,” he said. That said, it was his “silver bullet.” Despite his pessimism, the former officer refuses to wait for the verdict of the conservative TSE judge Benedito Gonçalves, who is the rapporteur in this case.
Bolsonaro, who is facing further lawsuits against him, has called his accusers’ relationship between his words of disqualification in front of ambassadors in the middle of the election campaign and the latest attacks by Bolsonaro supporters “absurd”. January 8against the headquarters of the executive, legislative and judicial powers in Brasilia. The former president attributed the acts of vandalism to the followers of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and in addition, in turn “idiots” Right-wing extremists trying to organize bomb attacks near Brasilia airport. “Now There was an uprising of the Wagner group in Russia. There were tens of thousands of armed men on both sides and tanks in the streets. In Brazil, the coup was carried out by young ladies carrying Bibles under their armpits. Little men with the Brazilian flag on their backs.”
hard proof
“Bolsonaro’s possible penalty will be exemplary“So that other political leaders do not use the presidency as a springboard for election campaigns that are not permitted by law,” said Merval Pereira, columnist for the Rio de Janeiro newspaper. Or the Globe. “Bolsonaro long ago replaced frontal assaults on the high courts with rhetorical laments that he was persecuted. His lawyer, in his defense, argues that he deserves at most a fine, and he already admits at that meeting that there was a violation.” For Pereira, discrediting the then-presidential election process decision, “a clear step in the direction of the intended coupThat was clarified later.” According to him, there is no need to even rely on the coup report they found at the home of former Attorney General Anderson Torres, or the documents found on the Lieutenant’s cell phone. Colonel Mauro Cid “to understand the timeline to which the ambassadors’ meeting was attached” and at 8E it’s ending.
possible effect
According to Monica Gugliuano, columnist for the São Paulo newspaper SituationThe possible suspension of Bolsonaro’s political rights could “be the missing wave for most evangelicals in Congress to surf” towards the Labor Government (PT) and its centrist allies. “We expect a word of peace and love from President Lula. It’s a word he didn’t want to give us until now,” said Congressman and pastor Cezinha de Madureira. Gugliano said, “The movement of some of the Evangelicals dissatisfied with Bolsonaro radicalism is not new. The problem is that some sections of the PT religiously reject any rapprochement with the churches, where Bolsonaro garnered 70% of the vote in the sector, the 30% given to Lula in the elections. Compared to”. To accept coexistence with evangelicals who were allies between 2003 and 2010, Lula will need to overcome resistance from partners and allies on the far left within the party.