President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) said this Saturday (18) that the alleged agreement he made with the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes in September last year involved the end of investigations into fake news and anti-democratic acts, investigations targeting some of the president’s allies.
“I talked to him three times. [Moraes]. O [Michel] Temer was there, no one denies it, I signed the letter, I was offended by the most varied words possible, but what I talked to Alexandre de Moraes was a pacification, Temer came in with a letter, he got into other things, among them, in a few weeks the shelving of fake news inquiries and anti-democratic acts. Did he accomplish something? No”, said the president, during an event with religious in Amazonas.
In early June, Bolsonaro stated that an agreement would have been signed during the telephone conversation he had with Moraes after the acts of Sete de Setembro, 2021.
During the protests, the president called the minister a “scoundrel” and said he could fail to comply with Supreme Court decisions. After talking to Moraes by phone, in a conversation brokered by Temer, Bolsonaro backed off and said he made the attacks “in the heat of the moment”.
Information about the alleged agreement has already been denied by former president Michel Temer, responsible for articulating the dialogue between the president and the minister. Just last week, the emedebista stated that the president’s retreat did not involve a counterpart.
THE CNN sought out Minister Alexandre de Moraes to comment on the president’s speech, but he has not yet received a response.
The fake news inquiry, under the rapporteurship of Moraes, was opened ex officio by the then president of the STF, Dias Toffoli, in March 2019, with the aim of investigating attacks and false news against the Court.
Among the targets of the investigation are, for example, Bolsonaristas Daniel Silveira (PTB-RJ) and Roberto Jefferson (PTB-RJ).
In August of last year, Moraes included Jair Bolsonaro himself among the list of investigated.
The inquiry into undemocratic acts was opened in April 2020, in the face of discussions about the constitutionality of the fake news inquiry. The investigation, also reported by Moraes, had a similar scope to the fake news inquiry, with many investigated in common.
In July 2021, the process was shelved to give way to the investigation of anti-democratic acts.
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*Published by Renan Porto, with information from Kaio Teles
Source: CNN Brasil
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