Flávio Bolsonaro uses Zanin’s sabbath to attack Moraes – 06/21/2023 – Politics

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) used his speech at Cristiano Zanin’s Saturday to criticize the trial of his father Jair Bolsonaro (PL) at the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) and the inquiry opened by Minister Alexandre de Moraes.

One of the questions asked this Wednesday (21st) by Flávio was about what Zanin thinks of the “famous practice of ‘fishing expedition'”. “It is fishing, as it is called in the legal world, in which you throw a net, pull it and see what is caught in it, even without any foundation”, explained the term.

“You know how it is, when you say you’re going to get the vaccination card at someone’s house to get the cell phone?”, he continued.

Flávio’s reference is to the investigation into fraud in Bolsonaro’s vaccination card, which seized the cell phone of Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, who was the former president’s assistant.

In response, Zanin said that the fishing expedition should be condemned. “The state cannot elect someone as a target and then seek evidence against that target,” he said, adding that this practice has led to mistrials.

“I understand that this practice cannot be acceptable within due process of law.”

Flávio also compared the process that could lead to his father’s ineligibility at the TSE, about the meeting with ambassadors in which he repeated lies about electronic voting machines, to the one that acquitted the ticket Dilma Rousseff (PT) and Michel Temer (MDB) in 2017.

Bolsonaro must be judged within the context of Bolsonaro’s repeated statements and actions against the Brazilian electoral system and against superior court ministers.

The rapporteur of the process agreed to include in the process the draft of the coup decree found by the Federal Police in the residence of Anderson Torres, former Minister of Justice, revealed by Sheet on January 12th.

This understanding differs from what acquitted Dilma and Temer in 2017. At the time, the TSE decided by a majority to disregard new evidence presented after the action was filed. This evidence pointed to other suspicions, related to slush funds, against the two politicians.

On Saturday, the son of the former president read a report that summarized the 2017 trial, and said that in the case against his father “narratives of alleged anti-democratic acts were grafted that succumb to the fact that on January 1, 2023, Brazil had another President of the Republic”.

“I want to believe that the TSE, in particular Minister Alexandre de Moraes, will judge a lawsuit filed by the PDT with the same fairness that judged the PSDB lawsuit in 2017, which kept Temer in power and, thanks to that, Alexandre de Moraes is today Minister of the Federal Supreme Court,” he added.

And he asked: “Do you understand that processes filed without due legal process, contradictory or with evidence beyond the legal deadline are subject to nullity?”.

Zanin said that he does not know the specific case and that he would not comment on a specific case. But he added that “in general, the processes have a rite and each phase that is closed cannot be reopened”.

“Exceptionally, as long as there is no damage to the process, the judge or the rapporteur of the case may understand that it is possible to add some type of material later, but the rule, in my opinion, must be the observance of the rite and the phases of the process, which always moves forward”, said Zanin.