Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro admits 'missteps' in his government and the Justice requires him to explain a decree that suspended the elections

A judge of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) demanded explanations from former Brazilian President

on Monday about the draft of

establishing a state of national emergency that annulled the October elections won by Lula da Silva and intervened in said Court.

The news broke on Monday night, when it was learned that Bolsonaro had made

at the door of the house he rents in Florida in front of his followers who asked him

The document, found in a search at the house of the detained former Minister of Justice and Public Security of Bolsonaro and later security secretary of Brasilia (when the assault on the seats of power occurred) Anderson Torres,

Benedito Gonçalves, a TSE judge, included him in an investigation against Bolsonaro related to his

Anderson Torres.

Photo: Reuters

There is an "unequivocal correlation" between the minute and the accusations against Bolsonaro, the magistrate assessed, according to a fragment of the ruling published by on the O Globo website.

The draft was found days ago by the authorities in the house of Torres, detained on suspicion of collusion with the attacks on the powers of the State on January 8 in Brasilia.

What does the decree say?

The document is

that would impose what in Brazil is called

at the headquarters of the Superior Electoral Tribunal, commanded by magistrate Alexandre de Moraes, a judge whom Bolsonaro attacked throughout his four terms. years.

Parts of the document found in the house of Anderson Torres.

As provided for in the Constitution, the State of Defense has the objective of "preserving or promptly restoring public order or social peace", when they are "threatened by serious and imminent institutional instability or affected by calamities of great proportions in nature".

In addition to

and federal intervention, the state of defense is characterized by a situation of

and authorizes the restriction of fundamental rights.

The decree that Torres retained is precisely based on the Constitution "with the objective of guaranteeing the preservation or prompt restoration of equity and correction of the electoral process for the 2022 presidential election, in terms of its conformity and legality, which, if not be complied with or not observed, represent a serious threat to public order and social peace”.

Extracts from the decree.

Within three days

Gonçalves gave the ex-president

to speak about the text, within the framework of

during a meeting with ambassadors in which he questioned the legitimacy of the electoral system without evidence , last July.

In that process,

for public office.

The document, dated 2022, also had the objective of creating

that would assume the responsibilities of the electoral court and review the results of the presidential elections.

Torres pointed out on Twitter that he kept

in his house and that the document was taken

to feed narratives against him.

The police raid the house of Anderson Torres.

Photo: Reuters

Anderson Torres, who had requested a license and had traveled to Orlando, where Jair Bolsonaro is at the moment, when the dramatic events occurred in Brasilia,

last Saturday when he returned to Brasilia, investigated for alleged "omission and collusion" with the assault on Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace on January 8.

The current Minister of Justice, Flavio Dino, said that the draft is

and that it "shows the true purpose of the events of January 8."

Bolsonaro regrets

Bolsonaro, who has been in the United States since December 30,

.

And he spoke to supporters outside the house he rents in Florida.

“For four years, every day was Monday.

Does it have holes?

It has, of course.

We slip up a few times at home, let alone in government.

But at home we know who is responsible.

It is always us, the husbands, ”she said, according to a video released this Monday by the Metropoles portal.

Bolsonaro supporters in front of his rented house near Orlando.

Photo: CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP

In the images,

where he is being investigated by the authorities on suspicion of intellectual authorship of the assault on the headquarters of public powers.

"I regret what happened on the 8th,

," Bolsonaro said.

"But in my government, people learned what politics is, they got to know the powers that be, they began to value freedom. I talked to some about freedom, and they said it was like the sun, it rises every day, but it's not like that. We believe in Brazil”.

That Sunday, thousands of people identified with the former president invaded and looted the buildings of the Presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court.

More than 1,100 people continue to be detained for acts described as "terrorism" by the Lula government, which took office on January 1.

The former president, who remained isolated and practically silent during the last weeks of his presidency, had already condemned the "looting" and denied any connection to the assault.

Clarín writing with information from AFP, archive and Metropoles

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