The judge of Brazil’s Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraes, has rejected a request to suspend the investiture of eleven deputies for their possible connection with the coup attacks of January 8, so they will take office as scheduled on February 1.
De Moraes has taken as good the argument of the Attorney General’s Office that mentioned the lack of legal «legitimacy» of the lawsuit, at the same time that he has clarified that the people pointed out are already being investigated in previous processes related to these events carried out by followers of the former president Jair Bolsonaro.
«Undoubtedly, all will be held civilly, politically and criminally responsible for acts against democracy, the rule of law and institutions, including for malicious connivance – by action or omission – motivated by ideologies, money, weakness, ignorance, bad faith or bad character,» says De Moraes.
Those accused are Liberal Party (PL) deputies Nikolas Ferreira, Luiz Ovando, Marcos Pollon, Rodolfo Nogueira, João Henrique Catan, Carlos Jordy, Silvia Waiãpi, André Fernandes, Washington Rodrigues and Walber Virgolino, as well as Brazilian Labor Renovation Party (PRTB) deputy Rafael Tavares.
According to an investigation by the newspaper ‘O Globo’, a quarter of the PL bench in Congress encouraged the coup events of January 8 in Brasília. At least 29 deputies and senators of Bolsonaro’s party used social networks to spread false information about what happened on the Esplanade of the Ministries.
Despite Bolsonaro’s defeat in the presidential elections, the PL was one of the big winners as it will be the political force with the largest number of seats in the Chamber of Deputies – 99 – and in the Senate – 14 -, besides being the party with the largest number of state deputies in last year’s elections.
In addition to the liberals, a dozen other congressmen sympathetic to Bolsonarism made erroneous judgments about what happened that day, giving special fuel to conspiracy theories about the presence of «leftist infiltrators» in the attacks, the omission of functions of the new Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, or the comparison of the detention centers to concentration camps.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
