Gleisi: ‘It is not Lula who is afraid of losing. It is Bolsonaro who is afraid of prison ‘

The chief minister of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations, Gleisi Hoffmann, countered the statements of the governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), who, in a pocket act this Sunday, 16, implied that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) fears facing former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) at the polls in 2026.

By X, Gleisi stated that Lula ran six elections to the Planalto and, when he did not win, respected the result, did not draw or attacked the institutions. “It is not Lula who is afraid of losing, Governor Tarcisio. It is Bolsonaro who is afraid of prison, ”wrote the minister.

In a scholarship act on Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Tarcisio questioned the reason for the Brazilian court to make the former president ineligible. “What reason to ward off Jair Messias Bolsonaro from the ballot box? It’s fear of losing election, because you know they will lose?

This Sunday’s demonstration had as its main agenda the defense of amnesty for the convicted of the scammer acts of January 8. According to a survey of the monitor of the public debate of the Digital Media, from the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (Cebrap) of the University of São Paulo (USP), the act brought together 18.3 thousand people, less than 2% of the public of one million people who were expected for the act.

In a speech to supporters, Bolsonaro said that even “arrested or dead”, he will remain a “problem” for the Supreme Court (STF). The former president has already stated that he has enough votes to get the amnesty, who can also benefit him.

“I was in the United States (on Vandalism Day in Brasilia). If I were here, I would be stuck to this day or who knows them killed. I will be a problem for them, arrested or dead. But I leave the flame of hope, the liberation of our people, ”said Bolsonaro, denounced by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) as a“ leader ”of the coup plan to stay in power after defeat in the 2022 elections.