Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro Slams Coup charges against him | News about politics
The leader of the far right has announced a rebuttal on social media, accusing the Brazilian government of “being an authoritarian regime.”
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro He rejected what he called “unclear accusations” against him after being charged with attempting a coup to stay in power after his defeat of the 2022 election.
On Wednesday, in a long post on social media platforms, Bolsonaro said that criminal charges against him and 33 other persons are the consequence of the “authoritarian regime” that should “produce internal enemies”.
“The trick of accusation of democratic opposition leaders for drawing state strikes is nothing new,” Bolsonaro wrote.
He compared his accusation with the efforts in Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia and Nicaragua, all countries led by the leftist governments, where he said that the leaders accused members of the opposition of being “drawers.”
“That’s the case all over the world,” Bolsonaro added. “The reproduction is well known: they invent unclear accusations, claiming to be concerned about democracy or sovereignty and persecute opponents, to silence the voices and concentration of power.”
– O Mundo Está Atento ao Que sesa no brasil. O Truque de Acusar Líderes to mimic the Democracy de Tram Golpes não é algo new: Todo regime Authoritário, Em Sua ânsia Pelo Poder, Precisa Fabrisar Inimigos Parasbuitar Ereir. pic.twitter.com/vgm7hcaj2V
– Jair M. Bolsonaro (@jairbolsonaro) 19. February 2025
Bolsonar’s comments come the day after the Brazilian authorities accused the former president with the design of a multiple scheme to remain in power after his election loss of 2022 President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Among other charges, prosecutors accused Bolsonaro and dozens of their supporters of planning to poison the pipe and shoot in the dead justice of the Supreme Court Alexandre de Moraes, an enemy of the former president.
Other accused in the indictment include former ministers and former mayor.
“The responsibility for the acts harmful to the democratic order falls on the criminal organization led by Jair Messias Bolsonaro, based on the authoritarian project of power,” the allegation document said.
Bolsonaro, a former captain of the army who was president from 2019 to 2022, is unlikely to be arrested before the trial, unless De Moraes, who oversees the case, considers the risk of flight.
In the indictment, the right -wing populist leader of the crime for the first time in Brazilian authorities.
Represents a new blow to a 69-year-old, who planned all unlikely political return. He is currently forbidden to perform public duty by 2030.
This week’s charges follow the two -year investigation of Brazilian federal police concluded in November.
He questioned the alleged role of Bolsonaro in running the movement that Dedutio was a choice that culminated in thousands of his supporters Riots in the capital of the countryBrasilia, in January 2023.
During the riots, the supporters of Bolsonar clashed with the police and broke into the Presidency buildings, the Congress and the Supreme Court, robbing and causing damage.
Observers compared the events to the attack on the capitol of the United States on 6. January 2021When the supporters of US President Donald Trump tried to disrupt the confirmation of his defeat of 2020.
Bolsonaro repeatedly denied the involvement of the riot, pointing out that he was in Florida at the time.
Responding to journalists’ questions about the charges on Wednesday, Lula said everyone was entitled to assumption of innocence.
“If they prove that they have not tried a coup, and if they prove that they have not tried to kill the president, vice -president and president of the Supreme Election Court, they will be free,” Lula said. “If when judges judge, they conclude that they are guilty, they will have to pay the crime they have committed.”
