Eduardo Leite says he is against the amnesty: “I find it bad for the country”

Eduardo Leite says he is against the amnesty: “I find it bad for the country”


For the Governor of Gaucho, although “exists in the legislation”, it is questionable if forgiveness can be applied in the event of an attempted coup d’état

The Governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Eduardo Leite (PSD), he said on Wednesday 3, being against an amnesty to the former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and to the participants of the scammer documents of January 8, 2023. In an interview with the radio Gaucho node Second day of Bolsonaro’s judgmentThe milk was simple: “I’m against. I’m against the amnesty.”

According to him, despite the melody he maintains with Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), governor of St. Paul, in the economic agenda, there is a divergence in the subject. “I have a lot of convergence with the governor Tarcisio in the dimensional vision of the state, in renovation works, in concessions, in collaboration with the private initiative. At this point I have a divergence, I find the theme of the amnesty a mistake. I find it bad for the country,” he said.



Amnesty’s proposal was articulated at the congress with the support of the opposition sectors, although there is no confirmation that it would be placed on the agenda by the presidents of Chamber of Deputies, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB) e Senate, David Alcoholumbre (Union-AP).

According to Leite, although it claims that the criminal action of the coup is judged by the plenary of Supreme Federal Court (STF), not for the first class, the decision on the case “must be respected”.

“He has a police investigation promoted by the Federal Police, goes to another institution, which is the federal prosecutor, and then goes to another institution, which is the Stf, who has the ministers chosen by several presidents of the Republic, deleted from the national congress and who will make a decision in a college organ,” he said.

The Governor of Gaucho also stressed that any discussion of amnesty should only take place after the ongoing trial in the Supreme. “It is legitimate for the Congress discussion, the figure of amnesty is present in our legislation. It is questionable, from a technical-legal point of view, if it applies in the event of attempted coup.

He recognized that there was “a sequence of acts that prepared the disbelief of our elections” and said “happy to see our institutions work”. “All this is listed in the process and will be judged. Talking about Amnesty seems to me at all appropriate from the point of view of Brazilian institutional maturity,” he said.

The declarations take place at a time when Tarcisio underlined how the possible successor of Bolsonaro, move in Brasilia for amnesty to the political godfather. In addition to him, Romeu Zema (New), pre-handidate for the plateau in 2026, He also speaks for forgiveness to the former president for the “pacification of the country”.

Tuesday, during the first session of the judgment of the defendants of the crucial nucleus of the coup, Minister Alexandre de Moraes mentioned the topic of pacification before reading the process report“The apparently simpler path, which is of impunity and omission, leaves traumatic scars to society and erode democracy, as unfortunately the recent past of Brazil demonstrates,” he said.

“Confusing healthy and necessary pacification with pacification cowardice means impunity and lack of respect for the federal constitution. And more, it means encouraging new coup d’état attempts,” said the rapporteur.

Source: Terra

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