Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes already has two lawsuits filed in the Senate by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro to oust him from office, the second of them a day after the attacks of last January 8 on the Esplanade of the Ministries.
De Moraes, the center of the attacks by Bolsonaro and his followers, is one of the most prominent figures in the aftermath of the political crisis resulting from the attacks on institutions. He has been in charge of carrying out the investigations against those responsible for the attacks, in addition to being the judge in charge of several cases that the former Brazilian president has open, including that of the digital militias.
The first of the lawsuits filed in the Senate, which is in charge of approving the Supreme Court justices and has the authority to reverse their mandates, is dated January 5 under the signature of six lawyers close to the leader of the Brazilian far-right, while the second was filed on January 9 by Robert Petty, an aspiring councilman in 2020.
Both question his work as head of the fake news case, in which Bolsonaro is included for his attacks on the Brazilian electoral system and the voting model, being the electronic ballot boxes the target of a sort of crusade that the former president has launched since he became president in 2018.
Among the excesses that would have been committed would be the blocking of bank accounts and social networks of those investigated, as well as the order to imprison the indigenous José Acácio Serere Xavante, known as ‘Cacique Tserere’, one of the Bolsonaristas who participated in the siege of a Federal Police station in Brasilia earlier this month.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
