Marco Aurélio sees Bolsonaro’s ineligibility as an “extreme act”

Former Minister Marco Aurélio Mello stated that former President Jair Bolsonaro should not become ineligible in the action on foreign ambassadors. The lawsuit against Bolsonaro can be analyzed later this month by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).

“It’s little, it’s very little, from my point of view, to reach this extreme act, which is the act of ineligibility. He had a meeting with the ambassadors and acted as President of the Republic using the right of expression”, said Marco Aurélio , who left the STF in 2021, in an interview with Young pan.

On the last 31st, Minister Benedito Gonçalves, rapporteur of the process, ended the evidentiary instruction of the electoral judicial investigation action (aije). He considered that the necessary evidence had already been gathered to make a decision and opened a deadline for the parties – the PDT, author of the action, and Bolsonaro, accused of abuse of political power – to present their final allegations, in the last manifestation in the process.

After that, the Attorney General’s Office will have a deadline to present its opinion on the case. With that, Gonçalves must prepare his vote, and ask the president of the TSE, Alexandre de Moraes, for a date to judge the case.

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