investigated by preparing a coup towards the end of his presidency to stay in power, former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) called on his followers to defend him in the streets in an event that will take place on Sunday 25 February on Paulista Avenue, the main artery of Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city.
“I want to defend myself from all the accusations that have been made against me in recent months,” Bolsonaro said, underlining that The act will be “peaceful”.
This is the first response he gives to the Federal Supreme Court’s investigation into a conspiracy that emerged in 2022 during his administration to try to carry out a coup and ignore the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the general elections of that year.
“On the last Sunday of February, the 25th, at 3 pm, I will be on Paulista avenue for a peaceful act in defense of our democratic rule of law,” said the former president (2019-2022) in a video message released on their social networks.
Jair Bolsonaro in a complicated moment. Photo: EVARISTO SA / AFPOn Thursday, Chief Justice Alexandre de Moraes confiscated the passport of former President Bolsonaro as part of a mega case in which Two soldiers and the former councilor are arrested of the international affairs of the Presidency, the Trumpist Filipe Martins.
The magistrate also ordered it 34 raids in the homes of former heads of the Armed Forces and former ministers of the Bolsonaro administration.
The far-right ex-president disabled until 2030 by order of Justice for having falsely interrogated the Brazilian electoral system before foreign authorities, he asked that the march was not “against anyone” but asked that his followers go dressed in green and yellowthe national colors.
Raid on the Liberal Party. Photo: Sergio Lima/AFPIn the video he said that the world should know the opinion of his political sector and closed his message with this sentence “God, country, family and freedom”.
Among his relatives he is under investigation his son Carloscity councilor of Rio de Janeiro, for having commanded an illegal dissemination unit of ‘fake news‘ from the presidency between 2019 and 2022.
Last Thursday he was arrested – and released two days later – the president of the Bolsonarist Liberal Party, Valdemar Costa Neto, in whose house he was found when searched a pistol without a permit to carry AND gold nuggets allegedly smuggled from illegal mines.
The case is linked to the January 8, 2023 coup attempt perpetrated by Bolsonaro’s followers against Lula.
The Bolsonarists take over the leadership of Parliament in January 2023. Photo: Sergio Lima / AFPAs revealed by the Federal Supreme Court, Bolsonaro led cabinet meetings – the records of which are public – ordering his ministers to line up to spread “fake news” about the electoral system.
In the trial documents it appears that Bolsonaro supported the writing of a draft that he was preparing a self-coup before leaving power on December 31, 2022, which included arrest Judge Moraes and intervene in the electoral justice system, canceling Lula’s victory.
Lula defeated Bolsonaro by 50.9% against 49.1% in the run-offa result that supported the entire political spectrum except the former president.
In the video in which he invites the demonstration on February 25, Bolsonaro appears dressed in the national football team’s shirt.
Source: Clarin
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