PL tries to find legal loophole and asks for approval from the Chamber Board to vote to suspend the coup

By Emir Sader, Latin American Summary, April 3, 2025. Sources: Rebellion [Image: Jair Bolsonaro, former Brazilian president, at a rally in February 2024. Credits: Victor Moriyama, for The New York Times As was supposed, the Federal Supreme Court has decided, unanimously, to convict Bolsonaro and seven other people – among them several military ones – to [...] La entrada Brasil. Bolsonaro, convicted of coup against Lula was first published in Lat…

This Tuesday, the 1st, the Liberal Party (PL) filed a request with the Bureau of the Chamber of Deputies for the plenary to deliberate on the interruption of a lawsuit. This action involves former president Jair Bolsonaro and seven other defendants, accused of an alleged coup attempt, after the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the presidential elections. According to the newspaper O Globo, the bill seeks to use the parliamentary immunity …

The Supreme Court of Brazil charged the former president, and seven other persons, considered “the crucial core” of a conspiracy to abolish the rule of law and impose a military dictatorship. Bolsonaro had the objective of “not leaving power, or returning to it, by force.” The first chamber of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brazil charged former President Jair Bolsonaro and seven other persons, considered “the crucial core” of a conspiracy (…

Supreme Federal Court (STF) ministers have downplayed the Liberal Party's (PL) request that the National Congress suspend criminal action over the coup d'etat. According to these sources, the measure is unlikely to succeed. As shown by CNN, the party's president, Valdemar Costa Neto, asked the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), to expedite the analysis of the proposal. According to the legend, the Chamber could i…

The bill, the party of former president Jair Bolsonaro, filed a document with the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Deputies this Wednesday (1), asking to stop the criminal action tried by the First Panel of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) that made federal deputy Alexandre Ramagem (PL-RJ). He is accused of a coup d'etat, an attempt to violently abolish the democratic rule of law, criminal organization, qualified harm, and deterioration of th…

Party makes a request on behalf of Ramagem, but understands what measure would apply to other co-defendants in the process, including Bolsonaro. This Tuesday the bill filed a request to the Bureau of the Chamber of Deputies for the plenary to analyze the suspension of the coup, which will judge former president Jair Bolsonaro and seven other defendants. The idea is to use a loophole to try to paralyze the process that is taking place before the …