PT deputy asks Bolsonaro, Heleno and 3 others to lose military rank

Federal deputy Natália Bonavides (PT-RN) filed, on Friday (5), a recommendation to the Superior Military Court requesting that former president Jair Bolsonaro and four officers convicted of the coup plot be declared unworthy for officialdom and lose their ranks.

“The crimes committed by the officers represent a direct attack on the Democratic Rule of Law, involving the use of the military structure for coup purposes and violation of ethics, discipline and hierarchy. The STM itself has jurisprudence determining loss of rank in much less serious cases, which makes participating in a coup attempt incompatible with official status.”, explains Natália.

The filed document is signed by another 30 party parliamentarians requesting that, in addition to Jair, the former Navy commander Almir Garnier Santosformer Minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet and Reserve General Augusto Helenoformer Defense Minister and Army General Paulo Sérgio Nogueira and the former Minister of the Civil House and Reserve soldier Walter Braga Netto lose their patents.

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In the text, the deputy highlights that the Federal Supreme Court’s conviction is not limited to the punishment of serious crimes, but also highlights “the brazen and intentional use of the Armed Forces to give legitimacy to the coup movements of these convicted officers”. Natália reinforces that there is no way not to recognize that the actions of those involved placed the Armed Forces themselves in a vexatious situation.

For the deputy, the withdrawal of patents has a dissuasive effect, by making it clear that there is no personal, political or career benefit for those who attempted an institutional rupture.

Jair Bolsonaro and the 4 former members are serving sentences of more than 26 years for attempting to break with the Democratic Rule of Law after the loss of the 2022 elections to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).