Former president says he sees no reason not to be eligible and uses court’s behavior as argument when adjudicating 2017 abuse of power case
BRASÍLIA – On the eve of being judged by the Higher Electoral Tribunal (TSE), at the risk of ineligibility, the former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) held a meeting in Flavio Bolsonaro (PL), in the Senate, with allies, to discuss the vote on Lawyer’s Saturday Cristiano Zanin Martins, appointed to the Federal Supreme Court (STF), and also to devise prosecution strategies that could override his political rights. Upon leaving, Bolsonaro said in an interview that he sees no reason to be ineligible if the TSE’s decision is considered in the list process for abuse of political power. Dilma Rousseff-Michel Temercompleted in 2017.
With this speech, Bolsonaro admitted the risk he runs due to the gravity of the new evidence obtained in the investigation into those responsible for the January 8 Brasilia state bombings. On Saturday 17 Bolsonaro had admitted to his allies that “the indicators are not good for the judgment of the TSE”. Therefore, the ex-president’s legal strategy is to discount the analysis of evidence such as the minutes of the coup decree, found in the house of the ex-justice minister Anderson Torres.
“The action against me is exactly the same as the Dilma-Temer ticket. New facts have been attached to my action. Since the TSE has applied the jurisprudence to my case, for consistency, in my opinion, it must be so, the charge against me, for the meeting with the ambassadors, becomes fragile,” Bolsonaro told reporters.
Bolsonaro uses this argument because in 2017, when judging whether there had been any abuse of political power in Dilma and Temer’s electoral campaign in the 2014 election, the TSE decided, by 4 votes to 3, that the new evidence attached could not be taken into consideration. trial consideration after the action is filed before the Court, even if they strengthened the initial allegation and dealt with the same facts.
The TSE begins judging this Thursday 22, a lawsuit initiated by the PDT, in which the party accused Bolsonaro of committing abuse of political power and improper use of the media, when he convened and held a meeting with foreign ambassadors at the Alvorada Palace. July 18, 2022. At the meeting, Bolsonaro repeated the attacks he had made on the electoral system and told diplomats that the outcome of electronic ballot boxes in elections would not be reliable. The event was broadcast live on TV Brasil and on social networks.
However, after this first charge by the PDT, new evidence of an attack on the electoral system was attached to the TSE trial, obtained in the ongoing investigation investigations of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) investigating attacks on democracy by Bolsonaro and his supporters. New evidence obtained in the investigations into the coup attacks on the three powers of the Republic on 8 January was also included in the electoral process, such as the draft of the coup decree found in the home of former Justice Minister Anderson Torres.
“There is no reason to revoke my political rights for a meeting with ambassadors. It is only necessary to judge by the same jurisprudence of 2017 that this action will be dismissed,” Bolsonaro said.
Speaking about the Dilma-Temer ticket trial, Bolsonaro also mocked the fact that if Temer had not been acquitted and kept in office, minister Alexandre De Moraes, current president of the TSE, would not have been appointed by Temer.
“If it weren’t for such a trial, throwing away the evidence, Moraes would not be a STF minister because Temer would also be impeached. Ironically, Moraes is chairman of the TSE. I hope he acts impartially, as does the court as a whole,” the former president said.
Bolsonaro avoids talking about an inadmissible future
Asked what his plans would be if he were declared ineligible by the TSE, Bolsonaro said he would not talk about his future. “I don’t know if I’ll be alive when I round the corner here. So I’m not talking about ‘ifs.’ president or senator, I don’t know. This is not a reason to lose my political rights. There has been no attack on the electoral system,” Bolsonaro said.
Sabbath of Zanin
The former president admitted that he had also discussed what the PL vote would look like on Zanin’s Saturday, but he did not want to express the party’s position and compared the appointment of Lula’s lawyer to the appointment he made of the Minister André Mendonça. “The appointment of Zanin is the exclusive competence of the president. Many people have complained that I have appointed a terribly evangelical minister,” Bolsonaro said.
Source: Terra
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