Sputnik and Europa Press
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, November 29, 2024, p. 23
Rio de Janeiro., Former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro admitted in an interview that he had discussed with military commanders the option of declaring a state of siege, a legal mechanism provided for in the Constitution for exceptional cases (such as a war or foreign armed invasion) that annuls individual guarantees and grants the president of the republic full powers, after the 2022 elections, in which he was defeated by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
“Is debating one of the articles of the Constitution a crime? Were any of these possible proposals carried out? The army commander spoke about it (…) and it was not a very heated discussion, because I quickly expressed, ‘look, forget it, the correct thing is to present a petition to the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE),'” said Bolsonaro, accused by the police. federal – along with 36 other people – of having planned a coup d’état and even the assassination of Lula and other authorities.
In an interview with the UOL news portal, he admitted the existence of the minutes of the coup which he presented to the Armed Forces. “The minutes of the coup are based on the Constitution (…) if there is a solution there, why not discuss it?” He added that he justifies these movements because, in his opinion, the Superior Electoral Court was arbitrary.
The former president claimed to be a victim of persecution and did not rule out taking refuge in an embassy; In February he already spent two nights at the Hungarian diplomatic headquarters when his passport was taken away as part of the investigation. He stated that if I owed something He would not have returned from the United States where he spent three months after his defeat: he was not at Lula’s inauguration, nor at the attack on the buildings of the three powers that his followers carried out in Brasilia.
Now I can’t go to sleep without worrying that the police can come into my house at any moment.he protested.
Bolsonaro has a sentence of electoral disqualification until 2030 for abuse of power and improper use of the State media. However, he reiterated that he will be a candidate for president in 2026.