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| Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF Nelson Jr./STF |
BRASILIA – The President of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Alexandre de Moraes, who is also the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), was strongly criticized yesterday by President Jair Bolsonaro for breaching bank secrecy of the chief executive aide- de – Camp. , Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cesar Barbosa Cid. Bolsonaro said the minister had committed a “crime”. “Using the pen to do evil all the time, trying to get me out of battle, get me out. I have already challenged Alexandre de Moraes, who violated my assistant’s telematic secrecy, that this man did is a crime. What this man did is a crime. This man committed a crime. My aide-de-camp, especially the CID, is a person I trust,” the president told a correspondent. Said at the conference.
“He looks at the personal accounts of the First Lady and says, ‘Oh, unusual moves. Alexandre de Moraes shows the value of movements and having character. To make it very clear, Alexandre de Moraes, my wife, has There’s no law firm, show the truth. You’re helping Brazil bury for a personal matter, I don’t know which one, but it’s personal”, shouted the president’s amendment.
In a live on the 29th, Bolsonaro attacked the minister, asking the magistrate to “be a man once in his life” and calling him a “rascal” and “a child”. Some of the exchanged messages raised the suspicion of investigators about financial transactions carried out in the office of the President of the Republic. The material indicated that some of the transactions were aimed at paying personal bills for the presidential family and for those close to First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro.
Just yesterday, Bolsonaro pointed to a conspiracy, saying it would be in Alexandre de Moraes’ interest to oust former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from power and elect Geraldo Alcamín, the ticket’s vice president, to be sworn in. PSB). “What’s our future? To be a republic? I’m nobody’s hostage. Why do many people like Lula, some Supreme Court? Because you’re being ordered, you’re going to get your ass stuck. He wants to.” Well, he wants to impeach Lula as soon as it comes to Alcmin, a close friend of Alexandre de Moraes, taking over the government. What I’m talking about is a lie?”
He also complained about another measure, in which Moraes fined R$20,000 for advance campaigning at a meeting with foreign ambassadors, where, without evidence, the president contested the election at a meeting in the Palacio do Alvorada in July. system and electronic voting machines were attacked. “Is it hard to see? I’m fighting for it, it’s not for me, it’s for Brazil. For me, on the other side of the counter, it was much easier to be on the side of the guy who’s in the Supreme Court and TSE [ Alexandre de Moraes]. Everything was against me. I was fined $20,000 just because I gathered ambassadors here”, he protested.
Bolsonaro also commented on the decision of Edson Fachin, then-chairman of the Superior Electoral Court, who vetoed a statement by the health minister, Marcelo Quiroga, on television and radio, praising the portfolio’s role in combating COVID-19. Epidemic. In August, the magistrate pointed out that in the middle of the election period, the principle of impersonality “denies the individuality of the programs of the federal public administration”. Marcelo Quiroga will make a statement on polio vaccination and multiple vaccinations in 2022. He plans to say that, “during the Covid-19 pandemic, we demonstrated our ability to acquire and vaccinate our population, in record time”.
Moraes, on the other hand, rejected a new request from the government on the 5th to circulate a statement from the Minister of Health on increasing vaccination coverage against poliomyelitis. “Indeed, even though the dissemination of data and alerts assumes undeniable importance for adequate awareness and, consequently, increased vaccination coverage, access to such information by other means is entirely feasible for the population, which is why, this In the case, it is not necessary that, in order to achieve the same intended objective, the holder of the portfolio should, in view of the undue personality, speak on national radio and TV networks, under penalty of violating the principle of impersonality, electoral, during the period, regarding actions relating to public administration”, reads part of the decision.