Jair Bolsonaro’s liberal party is preparing an amnesty bill if the former Brazilian president is declared ineligible for eight years in the Superior Electoral Court’s verdict this Thursday.
The bill introduced by federal deputy Ubiratan Sanderson targets “matters that constitute civil electoral offenses, as is the case in the trial facing Jair Bolsonaro.”
“It’s not even an electoral crime,” said the federal deputy in a recording sent to Lusa, referring to the accusation of abuse of power and politics and abuse of the media at a rally organized by the then Brazilian head of state, in the middle of the election campaign, with foreign ambassadors at Palácio da Alvorada, the president’s official home in Brasília, on July 18, 2022.
“Without any criminal relevance, they want to silence the greatest leader of the right in Brazil, one of the greatest leaders in the world,” the Brazilian federal deputy stressed, adding that his bill has the support of the Liberal party bench, the largest in the world. the Chamber of Deputies with 99 parliamentarians, out of a total of 513, and from other parties “allied to the right”.
During this meeting, which was broadcast on state television TV Brasil and on social media, the then president launched several baseless attacks on the reliability of the electoral process and more specifically on the electronic ballot boxes used and validated by various international bodies since 1996, and the same ones that elected him to several terms as federal deputy and president.
“It has brought no electoral advantage to anyone, nor electoral harm to anyone,” the federal deputy countered.
The ruling of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) that would make former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ineligible for the next eight years should be finalized today.
From 9 a.m. (1 p.m. in Lisbon) in the plenary session of the TSE, in Brasília, the remaining six judges must vote, after Tuesday the magistrate and rapporteur of the action against Jair Bolsonaro, Benedito Gonçalves, for the ineligibility of the former Brazilian president, I believe that the former head of state abused political power and misused the media.
“It is not possible to turn a blind eye to the anti-democratic effects of violent speeches and lies that undermine the credibility of electoral justice,” he stressed, referring to a meeting organized by the then Brazilian head of state in the middle of the election campaign, with foreign ambassadors at the Alvorada Palace, the official home of the president in Brasília, on July 18, 2022.
To be ineligible, Bolsonaro must have been convicted by at least four judges. If any of the seven judges request a review of the case, they must return the files to resume the trial within 30 days, to resume for another 30 days from the date of the hearing in which the request for review was made . With the closure of the higher courts in July, the deadline will be extended to 90 days.
Defense attorney Tarcísio Vieira de Carvalho Neto has already announced that if Bolsonaro loses the case and is declared inadmissible, he will appeal to the Supreme Federal Court (STF).
Source: DN
