The Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) voted for the disqualification of Jair Bolsonaro until 2030. Carmen Lúcia, a member of that collegiate and also a judge of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (STF), joined three other magistrates and formed a majority of four votes against . of seven possible for the conviction of the former president of Brazil.
With the result 4-1, unfavorable to Bolsonaro, and only two judges to vote, the decision is made.
The defense of Lula da Silva’s predecessor can now appeal to the TSE itself and to the STF. And there is the possibility that Nunes Marques, one of the judges who has not yet voted and is close to the former president, who appointed him to the position, will request “reviews of the process”, a procedure that would delay the trial. for 90 days. However, in a recent interview with the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, Bolsonaro said he still had “a silver bullet” to use, referring to an amnesty request filed by lawmaker Ubiratan Sanderson, from his PL party, for be voted on in Congress. Most observers, however, see no chance of the idea succeeding.
On Tuesday, the rapporteur, Minister Benedito Gonçalves, concluded that Bolsonaro should be sentenced for abuse of political power and improper use of the media in the action in question, regarding a meeting with ambassadors held in July 2022 with the objective of to attack, without evidence, the electronic voting system used in Brazil. According to the PDT, the party of then-pre-candidate Ciro Gomes, this meeting constitutes “abuse of political power” and “improper use of the media,” a legal understanding now corroborated by the TSE.
On Thursday, two judges agreed with the rapporteur, Floriano Marques and André Tavares, and one, Raúl Araújo, voted for acquittal. With the vote of Carmen Lúcia, the result is partial, but already decisive, 4-1
Bolsonaro’s lawyer, who spoke the previous week, had argued that the meeting, although controversial, did not have an electoral nature.
Braga Netto, Bolsonaro’s 2022 vice-presidential candidate, was also on trial but was acquitted, 4-0, on Thursday.
As the sentence was already a probable scenario, Bolsonaro and his party, the PL, plan the next municipal elections, in 2024, under the slogan of the supposed “political persecution”. “The idea is that, with this scenario, even more votes are transferred to those that Bolsonaro supports in next year’s municipal elections. The PL’s intention is to increase the number of cities administered by the party from 300 to a thousand,” he wrote. . columnist Bela Megale, from O Globo, even before the trial
And the party is also preparing the 2026 presidential election without the ineligible Bolsonaro and, perhaps, without Lula, who during the campaign promised not to run for re-election but is now showing signs that he will not keep his promise.
Therefore, the path of succession has already begun to be traveled by the PL, whose advertising spots in recent weeks on Brazilian television have made Michelle Bolsonaro, the former first lady and current president of PL Mulher, the protagonist. Despite being involved in the case of the Saudi jewels diverted by her husband from the presidential collection to her own house, Michelle continues to be a personal bet of Valdemar Costa Neto, the president of the PL, who sees her with electoral potential, still more supported. for her husband
“If Bolsonaro is not a candidate, we have Michelle, at the launch [da candidatura de 2022] of Bolsonaro in Maracanãzinho, it was revealed, so if he is a candidate, he will be a very strong candidate, if he is not a candidate, he will be even stronger, because this right-wing movement is here to stay,” Costa Neto said even before the jeweler.
Other names, however, line up to fly the banner of “Bolsonarism without Jair.” To begin with, that of the defeated vice-presidential candidate Braga Netto, a general who took over as secretary of Institutional Relations for the PL, erected the party’s political observatory, a center for the preparation of proposals in opposition to the Lula government, the world is already going around. country accompanied Michelle and emerged unharmed from the trial. Seen as a relevant milestone, Braga Netto may run for mayor of Rio de Janeiro next year to gain strength for the 2026 presidential election.
On the political scene, governors Tarcísio Freitas and Romeu Zema, from Republicanos and Novo, parties in the orbit of the PL, are also natural “candidates for candidates.” The first won the government of São Paulo, the most populous and richest in the country, beating Fernando Haddad, now Lula’s Finance Minister, and, with a technical and managerial profile, is seen as the main exponent of the more digestible side of the Bolsonarism.
But against him is the fact that he is in his first term, under pressure to seek re-election, unlike Zema, who is serving his second term, and thus free to take up the national challenge in 2026.
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However, the action on the meeting with ambassadors to denounce fraud without evidence was only one of 16 other investigations in the TSE.
Among which the electoral use of social programs during the electoral campaign, such as the anticipation of the transfer of Auxílio-Brasil and Auxílio-Gás benefits; increase in the number of families benefiting from Auxílio-Brasil; advance payment of assistance to truckers and taxi drivers: debt negotiation program with public banks, among others.
He also faces a complaint from the PT for the use of a “disinformation ecosystem” made up of Bolsonaro profiles based on the digital strategy of councilor Carlos Bolsonaro, in addition to three actions on the electoral use of the parade on September 7, last year. during the celebrations of the bicentennial of Independence, in the presence of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Three other actions investigate whether the former president committed abuses during official trips to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and to the UN. There are still three more lawsuits that challenge the use of the Palácio da Alvorada for the electoral campaign, through lives and events, a complaint of privileged treatment by the right-wing broadcaster Jovem Pan during the electoral period and one more for an alleged parallel campaign carried out by businessmen, pastors and religious entities.
In the criminal sphere, on May 3, the federal police carried out a search and search warrant at the former president’s house, in Brasilia, to investigate an alleged fraud in the vaccination card against Covid-19. Bolsonaro remains in the crosshairs of justice for the aforementioned scandal of embezzlement of Saudi jewels and his involvement in the attacks on January 8.
Ailás, since 2014, still a deputy, is suspected of a total of 25 crimes, for omission in the pandemic, incitement to rape a deputy and others, for which he will still answer.
Source: TSF
