Lula says he is advised not to talk about Moro and Bolsonaro after weariness – 06/04/2023 – Politics

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) said, this Thursday (6), that he is advised not to talk about his political opponents Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and Sergio Moro (União Brasil-PR), but about what he intends to do in your government.

“[Paulo] Pepper [ministro da Secom] you have guided me every day not to mention those names that you mentioned [Moro e Bolsonaro]. That’s why I didn’t mention the names. I don’t have to talk about the thing or the thing,” he said, when asked about the two.

“I’m going to start talking about the things we’re going to do from now on,” he added.

The representative’s statement was made during breakfast with journalists this Thursday morning at the Planalto Palace.

Allies complain that, when Lula mentions his opponents, he ends up promoting them politically, as happened recently, when he said he thought a PCC plan investigated by the Federal Police to attack the former judge of the senator was “a setup”. Operation Lava Jato.

“I’m not going to talk because I think it’s another set up by Moro. I want to be cautious, I’m going to find out what happened. It’s visible that it’s a set up by Moro”, said the president.

On the eve, however, members of the PT government had praised the operation carried out by the PF, which is linked to the Ministry of Justice.

The inference made by Lula intensified the dispute with opponents and led Moro to react by demanding “decency” from the president. Judge Gabriela Hardt, responsible for signing the arrest warrants, took the process confidential shortly after the president’s speech, leading to the disclosure of more details of the police investigation

After an 89-day stay in the United States, former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) returned to Brazil exactly one week ago, to try to lead the opposition to the Lula government, at the same time that he will need to defend himself in investigations —which range from Saudi Arabia’s jewelry case to the January 8 attacks.

Bolsonaro is the subject of other inquiries at the STF and TSE, and may even run the risk of being ineligible.

One of these actions has already reached its final stage. The Electoral Inspector General, Benedito Gonçalves, concluded the evidence collection phase in the process that deals with the meeting promoted by Bolsonaro at the Alvorada Palace with ambassadors, in July last year, when the then president made attacks without evidence on the electoral system.

Last Friday (31), the Minister of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) determined that the parties should be summoned to present their last arguments (final arguments) in the records of the Aije (electoral investigation action).

The action investigates the alleged practice of abuse of political power and misuse of the means of communication in the meeting with dozens of foreign representatives.

At that meeting, Bolsonaro repeated conspiracy theories about electronic ballot boxes, promoted new coup threats and attacked higher court ministers.

Among the documents attached to the process is the draft of the coup, a proposal for a decree for the establishment of a State of Defense in the TSE.

The paper was collected at the home of former Minister of Justice Anderson Torres, the subject of an investigation by the STF (Federal Supreme Court) about the coup attacks on January 8. Torres, who is under arrest, gave testimony in the electoral investigation proceedings.

Bolsonaro’s ally said he was unaware of the authorship of the coup draft and reaffirmed what he said in a statement to the PF in February that the paper was disposable and “without legal viability”. “That pseudo-draft, to me, was rubbish,” said Torres.