Bolsonaro’s defense tells the STF that the PGR’s request is “ideological patrolling”

The defense of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) asked the Federal Supreme Court (STF) this Tuesday (18) to reject the request of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) to obtain a “complete list with the names and data of identification of the ex-president’s followers”.

This Monday (17), the Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, Carlos Frederico Santos, presented the request to Minister Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the case. After the repercussions, Santos stated that he will not investigate Bolsonaro’s millions of followers.

The former president’s defense requested that Moraes reject the request, which he classified as a “poorly disguised form of political monitoring of supporters of the former president, resulting in an odious and anachronistic form of true ideological patrolling.”

The lawyers stressed that only Bolsonaro is being investigated, not his followers, the newspaper reported. The globe. For the defense, requests like the PGR are “absolutely unusual and seriously offend” the “most essential values ​​of freedom of opinion and expression”.

In addition to the list of followers, the PGR requested other information from the former president’s official accounts, such as the full posts related to the elections, electronic ballot boxes, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), STF, Armed Forces, in addition to photos and videos related to these themes.