A First degree of Federal Supreme Court (STF) The defendant was made last Wednesday (26), Gear Bolsonaro (PL) After condemnation Public Prosecutor Office (PGR) To participate in an attempt mode Coup After the 2022 elections.
Bolsonaro has become the sixth person who occupied the presidency of the Republic since the restoration of blood to become a criminal work.
Among the eight leaders of the executive authority, since 1985, ITamar Franco and Fernando Henrique Cardoso have not only responded to the court.
See the cases where the presidents were accused:
- Jose Sarni (1985 – 1990): The defendant to try to obstruct investigations into the lava operation JATO
- Fernando Color (1990 – 1992): The defendant for corruption and the transfer of public funds
- Luiz inácio LULA DA Silva (2003 – 2010): The defendant, his condemnation of corruption and money laundering
- Dilma Roussef (2011 – 2016): The defendant in the accountability process
- Michel Timier (2016 – 2018): The defendant to transfer money in Eletronuclear
- Jair Bolsonaro (2018 – 2022): The defendant to participate in planning the coup plot
Operations
Jose Sarny, who took office in 1985, on the occasion of the beginning of the democratic appeal in the country, was accused of embarrassment – an attempt to prevent, or obstruct – in investigations into the Lava Jato operation.
In 2017, Minister Edson Fashin decided to submit the investigation, at the request of the then Prosecutor at the time, Rodrigo Janeut, after the Federal Police (PF) said that there was not enough evidence.
Color
Two years after he took office, Fernando Color suffered from the dismissal accused of corruption. In the complaint, he was accused of establishing a “corruption and distribution plan for benefits with public funds.”
Even after the dismissal, Collor was eventually acquitted by the upper in this case.
However, in 2014, the former president became the focus of operations again. The Federal Police (PF), based on six cases submitted to STF under the Lava Jato operation, fulfilled the research materials and confiscation in his home.
Therefore, Color was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment and 10 months due to negative corruption and money laundering. His defense tried to reverse the punishment, but by 2024, the Supreme Court decided to maintain the conviction.
However, the arrest did not actually happen because the case was not yet Res Judicata, and the defense must make new calls.
If not
Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva (PT) was the first former president of the republic arrested due to a joint crime in the country.
In April 2018, Petista surrendered to the Federal Police of Corityba after he was sentenced to 12 years in prison and one month due to corruption and money laundering. 580 days remained in prison and left in November 2019.
In 2021, Minister Edson Fashin from STF considered that the thirteenth federal court in Cortitiba, responsible for the case, had no jurisdiction to judge him.
After that, the court sentenced the former judge and the current Senator Sergio Moro (Al -Ittihad), who is responsible for the condemnation of Lula, as a suspect in action against Betista.
Dilma
Like Color, Dilma Roussev (PT) suffered from isolation, approved by the National Congress and became the defendant. This process began to be treated in December 2015.
She accused an article presented by Lawyers Miguel Riley Junior, Jana Bashwal, Hillio Picodo Dilma of committing a crime of financial responsibility for a copy of three supplementary credit ceremonies without the permission of Congress.
In 2017, the Supreme Court received a request submitted by PGR and submitted an investigation against Petista.
Timer
From the isolation of Dilma, who was held by the presidency, Michel Timier (MDB). He also did not get rid of judicial problems.
In March 2019, the former president was arrested in the protection of the developments of Lava Jato. The relevant process was investigating the deviations at Eletronuclear – Brazilian Energy Company. He spent six days detained in the police shock to the Sao Paulo police.
At that time, he said that he had waited “Al -Safa” the release decision, which was issued by the Sixth Committee of the Supreme Court of Justice (STJ).
Three years later, in 2022, the Federal Court of Brazilia The former president and seven other defendants were acquitted in the case.
The weight of the term coup
Specialists heard CNNHowever, they reside that despite this history of political leaders and their Russians with justice, the process that involves Bolsonaro bears “weight” to involve the term “state coup.”
“Although other presidents have faced their problems in justice, I believe that the trial of Bolsonaro is the most downloaded. Second, I think that Lula, who had the question of everything in the case of the second case, had an anti -influence agend, and compared to Bolsonaro,” says political scientist and political partner at Think Leonardo Barricto:
“Bolsonaro has all this discussion on the limits of criticism of institutions, and in the 1964 way, had it not been for a symbol of the anti -corruption schedule, which is an anti -escape that all this is embodied in the end.”
Ilana Martins, criminal lawyer and criminal law doctor of the University of São Paulo (USP) agrees.
“Therefore, I think the trial against Bolsonaro has a different weight compared to other cases, because this is the first time that it has been a complaint against a former president of the coup crime,” he says.
The two cite the period of the dictatorial system in Brazil as a weight factor in the trial of Bolsonaro as well. Noting the need to separate from the past and the present.
“The discussion is also related because Brazil was recently underwent a turbulent period of dictatorship, and because of the amnesty law, there was no responsibility for the participants. It is still a related legal and political framework, indicating that our institutions are strong and equipped to defend democracy.
Barretto wonders about the effects of this ruling – Stf expects to start between September and October this year For 2026, when the upcoming presidential elections occur.
He says: “The first effect is the extent of this polarization for the next year, because we have an opportunity, even if STF finished the trial, which Polsonaro will arrest him to change his blessing to a suitable candidate to obtain the presidential amnesty agenda.”
It is estimated that if Bolsonaro is arrested, the subject of amnesty can become the agenda of campaigns around Brazil.
“You will have a free campaign Bolsonaro – until it is played abroad – because the son of Bolsonaro, Eduardo, in the United States – and the right filter will definitely have to answer in all discussions, whether he will be pardoned or not,” Barreto continues. “
Looking at all cases where Bolsonaro was charged, in addition to the one in which he became accused, you may add the maximum penalty in prison for 70 years, but for the occurrence of this final detention, STF You will need to perform a series of toddlesHow to listen to defense, claim and defendants.
A The complaint indicates five crimes attributed to the accusedAll related to a plan to prevent Louise Insio Lula da Silva (PT), the election winner. they:
- Armed criminal organization;
- Try to cancel the rule of democratic law;
- Coup
- The damage to violence and the serious threat against the assets of the union, and with great damage to the victim;
- And the deterioration of the included heritage.
