Former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) classified as “injustice” the decision of the Supreme Court (STF), which formed a majority on Tuesday, 25, to condemn federal deputy Carla Zambelli (PL). A day earlier, Bolsonaro had attributed to the parliamentary responsibility for his defeat in the 2022 elections.
“Injustice. An injustice with Carla Zambelli. As far as I know, she has a gun possession … An exaggeration. Not only the revocation of her mandate, as well as the number of years in prison. She runs after an unarmed person. She made a mistake?” Said the former president, during an interview after an STF unanimous decision that made him a defendant for attempted coup coup d’état.
Despite the defense, Bolsonaro again said that the action of the deputy, who drew a gun and pursued a supporter of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) on a street in the Jardins neighborhood in Sao Paulo on the eve of the second round of the 2022 presidential election, “interfered with elections.”
“It helped wear me, because a very powerful press agency was showing all day that message:” Look, those who defend weaponry advocate such a situation, “said the former president.
On Tuesday, 25, Bolsonaro had said that Carla Zambelli “took off her mandate” from her plate in 2022. “Carla Zambelli took our mandate. She took our mandate,” Bolsonaro said when recalling the episode during participation in Podcast Intelligence Ltda. On Monday, 24. For the former president, voters associated the attitude with their policy of defending the expansion of gun possession, which would have cost him votes, ”he said.
The deputy countered the former president’s accusations, saying they were not “fair”. “At the worst time he speaks this way is to bring a lot of weight to my back,” Carla Zambelli said in an interview with Andreia Sadi’s blog in G1. “Imagine what it is, for the head of a deputy, to be guilty for the election of a country for defending themselves of four men who spit me, cursed and pushed?
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Although the majority was formed in the Supreme Court, the trial has not yet closed and the conviction will not be immediate. In addition, resources still fit. Carla Zambelli was convicted of illegal possession of a weapon and illegal embarrassment using firearms. In addition to five years and three months in prison, the conviction may result in the loss of the federal deputy’s mandate.
