Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), denied this Thursday (1st) a new request for humanitarian house arrest for former president Jair Bolsonaro. The judge stressed that the former chief executive must return to the Federal Police headquarters in Brasília to serve his sentence after being released from hospitalization at the DF Star Hospital, scheduled to take place today.

The new request for house arrest was presented this Wednesday (31), at 5:09 pm. In it, the lawyers requested that the former president go home immediately after being discharged from the hospital. However, when evaluating the request, Minister Alexandre de Moraes considered that the defense did not present “supervening facts that could rule out” the reasons for maintaining the prison in a closed regime.

The minister also highlighted that, “unlike what was claimed by the defense”, Bolsonaro’s health condition did not worsen, but rather there was a “clinical picture of improvement in the discomfort he was feeling, after carrying out new elective surgeries”. The former president has undergone a series of procedures in recent days on his phrenic nerve, with the aim of alleviating his recurring bouts of hiccups.

Moraes also highlighted that all medical prescriptions indicated as necessary “can be fully carried out at the PF, “without harm to Bolsonaro’s health.” There is still no timetable for the ex-president’s discharge.