Valdemar says Bolsonaro will be ‘stronger voter’ – 06/30/2023 – Politics

The president of the PL, Valdemar Costa Neto, classified, this Friday (30), as unfair the decision of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) to declare Jair Bolsonaro (PL) ineligible, and said that he will be the “strongest voter in the nation” in the 2024 and 2026 elections.

The former president, 68, will be able to run again in 2030, aged 75, thus staying away from three elections until then.

“There is no way to believe what is happening: the first time in human history that a former president loses political rights for speaking. We will work double time and show our loyalty to President Bolsonaro. You can believe that today’s injustice will be able to reveal the nation’s strongest voter,” he said on Twitter.

“And the result of this will be registered in the 2024 and 2026 elections. More than ever, Brazil needs strength. It is time to overcome. Bolsonaro is the greatest popular leader since redemocratization and will continue to be”, he added.

Bolsonaro joined the PL last year. Today he is honorary president of the party, and his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, heads PL Mulher.

Former vice president of the Republic Hamilton Mourão (Republicans), now a senator from Rio Grande do Sul, compared Bolsonaro’s ineligibility to the loss of the federal deputy mandate of Deltan Dallagnol, former prosecutor of Lava Jato.

“Thus, Brazil’s electoral justice stands out for revoking the popular will, as it did with Deltan Dallagnol now does with Jair Bolsonaro. ‘Oh, Tempora, Oh Mores’…”, wrote Mourão, in reference to the president of the TSE, Alexandre de Moraes.

Former Bolsonaro ministers used social media to comment on the Electoral Justice decision. Senator and former Minister of the Civil House Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI) stated that “they can hurt the present”, but not “prohibit tomorrow”.

“Hope is more alive than ever. The hope of a more sovereign Brazil, of a dream that today we know can come true. Some will say: we only have hope left. Others will say: hope is everything. We don’t need nothing else,” he declared on social media.

Appointed as one of Bolsonaro’s possible successors, Senator and former Minister of Agriculture Tereza Cristina (PP-MS) said that the decision does not nullify Bolsonaro’s leadership. “It’s hard not to regret Bolsonaro’s ineligibility. He was the choice of 58 million Brazilians in 2022.”

Bolsonaristas avoid direct criticism of the TSE, but claim that the former president is the target of a political decision – not a legal one.

“It would never be for merit, but for motivation. We will be even stronger and standing for Brazil and for political and individual freedoms”, said in a note the leader of the PL in the Senate, Carlos Portinho (RJ).

Senate opposition leader and former minister Rogério Marinho (PL-RN) expressed solidarity with Bolsonaro and said he will defend the “legacy” of the past government.

“I want to express my solidarity with the one who transformed Brazil and awakened the love for the country throughout the country”, said the senator through social networks.

“As leader of the opposition in the Senate, I have a responsibility to defend the economic legacy that brought us out of the greatest recession in our history, family values, life from conception, the fight against the decriminalization of drugs and the defense of freedoms.”

Another former minister of Bolsonaro, Senator Marcos Pontes (PL-SP) wrote after the vote by Minister Alexandre de Moraes that Brazil is “in mourning for democracy”.

In the Chamber of Deputies, allies articulate a bill to amnesty the former president. Privately, however, federal deputies recognize that the chances are zero, and see the movement as a symbolic gesture of support.

According to the advisory of federal deputy Sanderson (PL-RS) —author of the proposal—, the text received the support of 29 of the 513 federal deputies so far.

Despite the demonstrations in favor of Bolsonaro, political chiefs had already taken Bolsonaro’s ineligibility for granted for months and had been discussing his successors.

The governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), and the governor of Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema (Novo), have been mentioned.

The PP of Ciro Nogueira has suggested together with União Brasil the name of the governor of Goiás, Ronaldo Caiado (União), and Tereza Cristina. Another mentioned is the governor of Paraná, Ratinho Júnior (PSD).

“I think that this result has no greater impact than recycling the confrontation that exists in Brazil. Not only is the matter not over, but it will unfold”, says Senator Esperidião Amin (PP-SC), emphasizing that the decision has yet to be will be resourced.

“I think that this decision, in addition to national appeals to the Supreme Court due to constitutional aspects, will greatly honor the lessons of the [Cristiano Zanin]: we will have actions in all possible international courts”, he says, in reference to the movement of President Lula’s lawyer (PT) and future minister of the STF.