A judge at the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) asked the former Brazilian president on Monday Jair Bolsonaro project explanations a decree he established a national state of emergency that canceled the October election won by Lula da Silva and said the court had intervened.
The news broke on Monday evening, when it became known that Bolsonaro had done it a political speech at the door of the house he rents in Florida in front of his followers who have asked him do not go back to Brazil.
The document, found in a search at the home of the detained former Minister of Justice and Public Security of Bolsonaro and then secretary of security of Brasilia (when the assault on the seats of power took place) Anderson Torres, It was considered unconstitutional by specialists.
Benedito Gonçalves, TSE judge, included him in an investigation against Bolsonaro linked to his own unfounded questioning of the electoral system.
There is an “unequivocal correlation” between the statement and the charges against Bolsonaro, the magistrate assessed, according to a fragment of the sentence published by on the O Globo website.
The draft was found a few days ago by the authorities in the home of Torres, detained on charges of collusion with the attacks on state powers on January 8 in Brasilia.
What does the decree say?
the document is formal decree of the executive which would impose what in Brazil it is called “Defense State” at the headquarters of the Higher Electoral Tribunal, commanded by magistrate Alexandre de Moraes, a judge whom Bolsonaro attacked during his four-year term.
As envisaged by the Constitution, the State of Defense has the objective of “safeguarding or promptly re-establishing public order or social peace”, when they are “threatened by serious and imminent institutional disruption or affected by calamities of great magnitude by their nature” .
Moreover enable site status and federal intervention, the state of defense is characterized by a situation of circumstantial limitation of constituent power and authorizes the restriction of fundamental rights.
The decree that Torres believed is based precisely on the Constitution “with the aim of guaranteeing the preservation or timely restoration of equity and the correction of the electoral process for the 2022 presidential elections, in terms of its compliance and legality, which , whether they are not observed observed or not, represent a serious threat to public order and social peace”.
Within three days
Gonçalves gave within three days to the former president to talk about the text, in the context of art a case for abuse of political power and misuse of the media during a meeting with ambassadors in which he questioned the legitimacy of the electoral system without evidence last July.
In that process, Bolsonaro may not be eligible for public offices.
The document, dated 2022, also had the aim of creating A commission assume the responsibilities of the election tribunal and review the results of the presidential elections.
Torres stressed on Twitter that he kept it in his home waste materials and that the document has been taken “out of context” feed narratives against it.
Anderson Torres who had asked for permission and had gone to Orlando, where Jair Bolsonaro is now, when the dramatic events took place in Brasilia, He was arrested last Saturday when he returned to Brasilia, under investigation for alleged “omissions and collusion” with the assault on Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace on January 8.
The current Minister of Justice, Flavio Dino, said the bill is “a link in the coup chain”, and which “shows the true scope of the events of January 8”.
Bolsonaro regrets
Bolsonaro, in the United States since December 30, broke the silence. And she spoke to followers at the door of the house she rents in Florida.
“For four years, every day was Monday. Does it have holes? She has, of course. We screw up a few times at home, let alone in government. But at home we know who is responsible. It’s still us, the husbands, ”she said, according to a video broadcast on Monday by the Metropoles portal.
In the pictures, his supporters advise him not to return to Brazil, where he is investigated by the authorities on charges of intellectual authorship of the assault on the headquarters of the public authorities.
“I’m sorry about what happened on the 8th, Something incredible“, said Bolsonaro. “But in my government, people have learned what politics is, they have known the powers that be, they have begun to value freedom. I spoke to some about freedom, and they told me it’s like the sun, it comes out every day, but it’s not like that. We believe in Brazil.”
That Sunday, thousands of people identified with the former president invaded and looted the Presidency, Congressional and Supreme Court buildings.
More than 1,100 people continue to be detained for acts described as “terrorism” by the Lula government, which took office on 1 January.
The former president, who remained isolated and practically silent in the last weeks of his presidency, had already condemned the “looting” and denied any connection with the aggression.
Clarín writing with information from AFP, archive and Metropoles
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Source: Clarin
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