Bolsonaro’s defense calls for changing the date for Trump’s advisor’s visit to Papudinha
Lawyers for former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) filed a request for Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), to review the date set for Darren Beattie’s visit to Papudinha, where the president is being held. For the defense, the 18th, set by the magistrate, makes the meeting unfeasible and asks that it be rescheduled for Monday, 16th, or Tuesday, 17th.
The meeting with the senior advisor to the Donald Trump government was authorized on the night of Tuesday, the 10th, to take place on Wednesday, the 18th, a date that does not correspond to those requested by the defense. This was because Monday and Tuesday were not visiting days at the site.
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“There is no legal or exceptional provision for making a specific change in the visiting day,” said Moraes in the decision, remembering that visitors must adapt to the prison regime and not the other way around, in order to preserve the administrative organization and security of the place.
For lawyers, the date chosen by the minister “ends up making the authorized visit itself materially unfeasible”.
According to them, the advisor has a short schedule in Brazil, which makes it impossible to visit at the time determined by the STF minister. As he is a “high-ranking US State Department” official, there is no concrete possibility of extending Beattie’s agenda.
“This is an attempt to facilitate an institutional meeting with a foreign authority at the top of the government of the United States of America, a country with which Brazil has historically maintained close diplomatic relations and of high strategic relevance”, they claim.
The advisor came to the country with the aim of understanding how the Brazilian electoral process works. According to the lawyers, Beattie’s visit is “of clear institutional interest”.
Appointed to the position last month, the advisor is in charge of directing policies and actions between Washington and Brasília. Beattie is critical of the Lula government (PT) and minister Alexandre de Moraes in the process that investigates the coup plot.
