Live: STF resumes trial and decides today if Bolsonaro becomes a defendant; accompany
The Federal Supreme Court (STF) holds the third extraordinary session on Wednesday morning to judge whether the former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) He will become a defendant for crimes attributed by his involvement in acts that culminated in an alleged coup attempt in January 2023.
The trial, which also analyzes cases of seven other accused, starts at 9:30 am, in the first class of the STF, in Brasilia.
Yesterday, the defenses of Bolsonaro and other reporteds spoke, and the ministers They pushed the preliminaries away and validated Mauro Cid’s denunciation.
Today, it is expected that the session has as an outcome the decision on whether or not to accept the complaint presented by pgr. If the ministers decide to accept the complaint, the criminal action will be filed.
The prosecution is based on a Federal Police report that points Bolsonaro as leader of a group that tried to prevent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) in 2023.
Follow the 2nd day of Bolsonaro’s 2nd day in the STF
Remember who is being tried with Bolsonaro
- Mauro CidLieutenant Colonel and former Assistant of Bolsonaro Orders;
- Walter Braga NettoGeneral and former Minister of Defense and the Civil House;
- Alexandre Ramagemfederal deputy and former president of ABIN;
- ALMIR GARNIERNavy Admiral;
- Anderson Torresformer Minister of Justice;
- Augusto Helenoformer Minister of the Institutional Security Office (GSI);
- Paulo Sérgio Nogueiraformer defense minister.
Remember the crimes of which Bolsonaro is accused
- Armed criminal organization
- Violent abolition of the democratic rule of law and coup
- Damage qualified to public assets
- DECLARED OF HERITAGE
Understand each of the crimes attributed to the former president.
Bolsonaro should appear again to the trial
According to the federal deputy Zucco (PL) yesterday at the end of the second session in the first class, the former president should be present again on the second day of trial. On Tuesday, he was sitting in the first row, alongside co -religionists.
What should happen on this 2nd day
- Minister Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the case, must submit his vote in the merits-that is, to evaluate the request of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) to open a criminal action in the Supreme Federal Court (STF).
- After the rapporteur’s vote, the other ministers of the 1st Class must speak in the following order: Flávio Dino, Luiz Fux, Cármen Lúcia and Cristiano Zanin.
- The board will decide whether the case should advance and be officially transformed into a criminal action.
- If the complaint is accepted, the investigators become defendants and will respond to a criminal case at the Court.
See the summary of the 1st day of judgment in the STF
- Minister Alexandre de Moraes read the document that details the conduct attributed to Jair Bolsonaro and the other accused, highlighting successive attacks on democracy.
- The Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, presented his arguments, with an emphasis on Bolsonaro’s performance in the dissemination of attacks on the electoral system and the electronic ballot boxes.
- The defenses of the seven accused and Bolsonaro also exposed their positions (check out a summary here).
- The STF ministers rejected the so -called “preliminary questions” – formal questions presented by the defenses.
- Minister Luiz Fux was the only one to diverge. He argued that the complaint related to the scam attempt should be analyzed by the Supreme Plenary, not by the 1st class.
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