election is a page turned and post against result was accidental

Former president Jair Bolsonaro told the Federal Police this Wednesday (26), according to his lawyers, that the 2022 election is “a page turned” and that the post he made, on January 10, was “accidental”. of a video questioning the outcome of the dispute. Because of this publication, he began to be investigated by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) for alleged incitement to crimes against the Democratic State of Law, within the scope of the investigation that investigates the intellectual authorship of the attacks on the headquarters of the three Powers on January 8 .

“The former president stated that the 2022 elections are a page turned. From the moment of defeat, he made a transition and on December 30 he took a vacation, which he had not taken for four years”, said lawyer Daniel Tesser , who accompanied Bolsonaro during the interrogation.

“About this post, so much so that the post was accidental, that he did not make any comments on top of this post. He blacked out soon afterwards. The president, when he went on vacation, he treated the election as a new page. So, at no time will you find any statement from him declining that the election was rigged. At no time is this said,” said lawyer Paulo Amador da Cunha Bueno, who also participated in the hearing.

The statement was determined by Minister Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the case at the STF. Bolsonaro arrived at the PF headquarters at 8:45 am and left around 11:30 am.

Former Communication Secretary in the Bolsonaro government Fabio Wajngarten also accompanied the former president. After the testimony, he reiterated that he repudiated the acts of vandalism on the night of January 8 and denied that the post – deleted hours after its publication – was made by his son Carlos Bolsonaro, who managed his networks.

“The president repudiated on the night of the 8 [de janeiro] all the regrettable events that happened here in Brasilia. End of the election, the president turned his political page. The president, you remember, faced a severe process of erysipelas, the president did not receive people in the Palace, the president did not articulate politically, the president closed himself off and on December 30 he traveled to the United States where he stayed until the end of March” , said Wajngarten.

Asked whether the post came from Carlos, he replied: “It was not Carlos Bolsonaro. Metadata will indicate this ”, he said, referring to the company that owns Facebook, where the video was published.