Jair Bolsonaro shook Brazil on Tuesday with the announcement of his return to the country next month, with the intention of leading the right-wing opposition to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. But, in a matter of hours, the former president found that it will not be a placid return: the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) ratified that it will involve him in a trial for coup.
“The right-wing movement is not dead and will continue to be alive,” said the former Brazilian Head of State during an interview that the “Wall Street Journal” (WSJ) anticipated on Tuesday night. Based on an interview conducted in Orlando, Florida, the American newspaper assures that Bolsonaro will return to his country in March after settling in the American city at the end of December.
The former president (2019-2023) “said he will work with his supporters in Congress and in state governments to push what he called pro-business policies and to fight abortion, gun control and other policies he says him, go against family values,” added the WSJ.
Bolsonaro sought to get rid of the accusations of fraud that he himself promoted in the months prior to the election, resolved in a second round on October 30 by a narrow 50.9 to 49.1 in favor of Lula, who thus came for the third time. to the Planalto Palace.
“Losing is part of an electoral process. I’m not saying that there was fraud, but the process was biased,” argued Bolsonaro, who for months has been seeking to break away from the statement that he himself installed throughout his government: that an electoral defeat It would have to do with fraud.
These attempts are not helping him much: almost at the same time that his interview with the WSJ became known, the first after he precipitously fled Brazil while he was still president, so as not to hand over the presidential sash to his successor, the TSE gave him very bad news.
Unanimously, the court decided that the minutes in which a plan to manipulate the presidential elections is described should be part of the file that investigates the former president and that can disqualify him politically. That minute was found in a registry in the house of Anderson Torres, until the end of 2022 Bolsonaro’s Minister of Justice.
The investigation was triggered by the attack that the then president made on the electoral system during a meeting with ambassadors at the Alvorada Palace in July 2022.
In the interview with the WSJ, Bolsonaro also denied any link with the coup riot that on January 8 devastated the Planalto Palace, the seat of the Federal Supreme Court and the Parliament, all located in the Plaza of the Three Powers, in Brasilia. .
“I wasn’t even there, and they want to blame me!” she complained. Bolsonaro, 67, and assured that it is a mistake to speak of an attempt to overthrow Lula’s government eight days after taking power: “Coup? What coup? Where was the commander? Where were the troops Where were the bombs?
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