Jair Bolsonaro will not be able to participate on the next two presidential elections. After the announcement of his impeachment, Bolsonaro stated that he “respected the Constitution and “always played within the four lines”.
By 5 votes to 2, former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) was made ineligible until 2030 by the Superior Electoral Court. The decision took place this Friday (30), after four days of trial. The last to speak was the president of the TSE, Alexandre de Moraes.
Moraes’ intervention only dismissed the lawsuit against Bolsonaro, in an action filed by the PDT for “abuse of political power”. The decisive vote came from the vice-president of the court, minister Carmen Lúcia, who left the score at 4-1, forming a majority against the “investigated”. The punishment will take effect after publication of the decision in the official records.
In addition to Carmen Lúcia’s, Justices Floriano de Azevedo Marques and André Ramos Tavares followed in the condemnatory vote of rapporteur Benedito Gonçalves. Ministers Raul Araújo and Kássio Nunes Marques Against Bolsonaro’s ineligibility.
Jair Bolsonaro turned ineligible with Alexandre de Moraes vote
In his vote, the president of the Superior Electoral Court, Alexandre de Moraes, decided to literally follow the vote (filled with more than 400 pages) of the rapporteur of the case, Minister Benedito Gonçalves. He accompanied Gonçalves in the thesis that Bolsonaro “used the meeting with ambassadors to raise votes in his favor in the elections”.
“Any allegation of legal uncertainty or surprise by the investigated person is indivisible. Justice is blind, but not foolish. We cannot create an ostrich precedent. Everyone knows what happened, the mechanism used to obtain votes, but everyone hides their heads under the ground. I fully follow the reporting minister and all those who accompanied him to partially judge the action, in relation to the first investigated, including the communications to be made, and to judge as unfounded in relation to the second investigated, Walter Souza Braga Netto ”, he concluded.
Bolsonaro breaks the silence on his condemnation: “I respected the Constitution and worked within the four lines“
Shortly after the result released by the Superior Electoral Court, considered expected by analysts, Jair Bolsonaro spoke in the city of Belo Horizonte (MG) about the loss of his political rights for the next 8 years. The conviction was more serious than the impeachment suffered by Dilma Rousseff, who was still able to contest the 2018 elections. According to the Constitution, she had to be ineligible for the same 8 years.
“I respected the Constitution, I worked followed the rules. It seems that all this effort was not recognized. I would not like to become ineligible. Not long ago, I was stabbed in the stomach. abuse of political power”, he vented.
