The Supreme Court of Brazil has decided to include former president Jair Bolsonaro among the suspects for the assault on institutional buildings carried out by his supporters on 8 January .
The Attorney General of Brazil, Augusto Aras, had asked for it, hypothesizing the crimes of "instigation and intellectual paternity" regarding the assault, in particular for having published a video "which questions the regularity of the 2022 presidential elections".
From his vacation retreat in Orlando, Florida, the former Brazilian president received word of his name being linked to charges of attempted coup . In a draft decree found by the federal police in the home of his former Justice Minister Anderson Torres, the former right-wing leader supposedly overturned the result of the October elections, won by his archenemy, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
To put the alleged coup into practice, Bolsonaro was preparing to establish a "state of defense" at the Higher Electoral Tribunal (TSE) as he was still president of the Republic, it is understood from the document leaked to the media.
The state of defense, envisaged by article 136 of the Constitution, would have allowed the president still in office to intervene, among other things, to "promptly restore public order or social peace threatened by serious and imminent institutional disruption".
Not only that: the decree also provided for the formation of a commission composed of then-President Bolsonaro and members of the Ministry of Defense to supervise the TSE, with the aim of producing a report analyzing the fairness of the 2022 elections.
(Unioneonline/D)
