Bolsonaro gathers protesters in Paulista for pressure to the STF and amnesty to scammers

Protesters gather on Sunday, 29, on Paulista Avenue, in São Paulo, to defend the former President of the Republic Jair Bolsonaro (PL). The concentration occurs in front of the MASP, so far with a smaller audience than the act of April 6 in the same place, which brought together 44.9 thousand people.

The effort to maintain mobilized militancy occurs amid the advance of actions regarding the judgment of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) of the 2023 coup acts and the previous year’s coup plot that could condemn the former president and allies.

The motto of the demonstration, whose main articulator is Pastor Silas Malafaia, is “justice already!”, In an attempt to press the Supreme Court, who judges the former president and other members of his government’s summit for the attempted coup in 2022.

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Once again, Brazilian flags come together with those of the United States and Israel in the demonstration.

In one of the tracks near the sound car, it reads “Bolsotrump” and “Trumponaro”. In another, with a caricature of Eduardo Bolsonaro, there is the words: “Edu, we support him” and “Donald Trump, Thank You Very Much.”

The demonstrations support the attempt of the federal deputy licensed to obtain sanctions on the STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes by US authorities.

There are also posters with criticism of the electronic voting system, with the phrase “Democracy only with public counting of the votes”.

With the motto “Justice already!” -more generic than previous protests -not even the organizers came to consensus on what the main focus of the demonstration will be.

Malafaia said that each speaker would speak of a distinct theme. “Each one will have room to speak the flag they want,” he says.

Already another organizer, heard privately, says that the central objective is to prevent the Amnesty Bill from losing breath – despite the growing skepticism within the bolsonarism itself about the chances of advancement of the agenda in Congress.

The PL leader in the House, Sostenes Cavalcante (PL-RJ) spoke with the press before the beginning of the act and said that the demonstration calls for “no persecution” to parliamentarians from the right and Bolsonaro.

Already the deputy mayor of São Paulo, Colonel Ricardo de Mello Araújo said he represented Mayor Ricardo Nunes, who is on an official trip to Rome. To the press, he argued that the scammer acts of January 8 were not a coup, but “depredation of public assets”.

He also said he wants Bolsonaro candidate for president in 2026, with the governor of Sao Paulo, Tarcisio de Freitas (Republicans), competing for reelection.

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), in turn, spoke about his interview with the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo in which he said that a candidate supported by the former president in 2026 should fight with the STF for pardon to scammers, if necessary, including “the use of force.”

To Estadão, Flavio stated that “it is not something I defended, or that I would work in favor of it.” “It was a scenario analysis that may end up happening if the Supreme himself does not reverse these legal bizarrees led by Alexandre de Moraes.”

The senator refers to the trial of Bolsonaro and other members of his government summit by the STF minister on charges of attempted coup after the 2022 elections.

During interrogation on June 10, the former president admitted to showing a draft to the then army commander, General Marco Antonio Freire Gomes, but denied having tried coup d’état. He also assumed he had received suggestions to decree a state of siege in the country.