The conservative former Brazilian Gea Bolsonaro president planned to poison current radical left-wing president Luis Inacio Ina da Silva, setting the “coup” following his narrow defeat in the 2022 presidential election.
Seven other “conspirators,” collectively referred to by the court as the “significant core” of the alleged conspiracy, face allegedly face charges of violent attempts to abolition the democratic rule of law, and are deterred with attempted coups, involvement in armed criminal organizations, and damage to listed legacy in exams of yet-unbet schedules.
A five-person STF Ministers, led by Minister Cristiano Zanin, held a roughly three-hour session to determine whether Bolsonaro should go to trial. The top judge voted unanimously to accept the criminal charges presented by the prosecutors of Brazil's Paulogonet. February against the former president and seven other men.
According to experts consulted by CNN Brasil On Thursday70-year-old Jair Bolsonaro could face up to 39 years in prison if convicted on all charges.
According to accusations presented by Prosecutor Gonette in February, Bolsonaro, fellow Vice President Walter Braga Net, and more than 30 other individuals, poisoned Lula and conspired to appoint a coup to override the outcome of the 2022 presidential election.
Prosecutor Gonette said the plot, which Bolsonaro said to have “approved” allegedly called for the assassination of current Vice President Gerald Alcumin and STF Minister Alexandre de Mores.
STF has notified that Website Five justices have concluded in deliberation that the facts investigated by the prosecutors constituted the crime and that there was evidence that Bolsonaro and the accused had participated in the alleged conspiracy. The STF will rule over the next few days to determine whether the remaining group of men accused by Gonet will also be brought to trial.
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STF Minister Alexandre de Moraise, the reporter of the case, said the prosecutor's office “has detailed evidence of the participation of the Crime Commission and the officials.”
De Moraes rated the complaint as “there is a proven significance of crime” as the complaint was “a coordinated action to commit crimes against democratic institutions and disrupt the usual process of succession to the president of the Republic,” and justified his argument based on an analysis of 474 separate complaints.
Bolsonaro addressed the reporter after the STF ruled that he had to go to trial. In his roughly 50-minute speech, the former president denied the accusations, describing them as “grave and unfounded,” claiming that “it appears to me as personal.”
“A coup has no laws or rules. A coup has conspiracy with the press, parliament, the judiciary and the economy. The first military, society, businessmen, farmers.” I said.
Bolsonaro also released staff statement In both Portuguese and English, he vaguely accused Brazil of wanting to lock him in prison for the rest of his life, when he was facing one of the greatest economic and democratic crises in its history.
“This is the same authoritarian playbook we saw in Venezuela, with the courts armed with weapons to decide the election before a single vote was held,” Bolsonaro said. “The Brazilians are deprived of the right to choose their leader, and if their most popular candidates are banned from voting through judicial manipulation, the country itself cannot be called a democracy.”
Bolsonaro declared, “Everyone knows I'll win if I'm allowed to run,” and claimed that his opponents silenced the opposition and “expanding enormous resources to ensure I don't appear on the vote again.”
“Brazil deserves a true democracy, where leaders are chosen in ballot boxes that are not excluded by courts. The future of our country depends on that,” concluded Bolsonaro.
Louis Inacio Lula da Silva, a radical leftist who is currently touring Japan and Vietnam, said Bolsonaro “comes to the conditions, not crying.”
“I would affirm that I would make a prediction about the Brazilian Supreme Court decision. I think the right thing is that the Supreme Court is very often made by the public prosecutor's office, based on the case file, after months and months of investigations made by the federal police, and many accusations from important people who have attempted to file accusations in Brazil. I said.
“It's not Bolsonaro that's on trial, it's a coup on trial. It's the actions of this citizen that are being judged,” he continued. “So, if he is guilty, he must be satisfied with the punishment, and I think that applies to all 213 million residents. So instead of crying, I come to reality and know that you committed an act that opposes the sovereignty of the country.”
Before being elected for a third term of power, Lula herself was convicted multiple times for using her previous term as president for enrichment of individuals. The STF overturned these convictions on jurisdiction grounds, but did not refute evidence against the Rula of corruption.
Christian K. Calzo is a Venezuelan writer and documents life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter here.
