Reports show Bolsonaro’s advisers are planning a coup in December

Messages discovered by the Brazilian Federal Police on the mobile phone of Jair Bolsonaro’s top aide, Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, who was arrested on Wednesday in Brasilia, indicate preparations for a coup d’état that was to take place last December, 15 days ago. ending the mandate of the then President of Brazil in order to keep him in power, despite the fact that two months earlier he had lost the presidential election to Lula da Silva.

The plan that was discovered called for the arrest, among others, of Judge Alexandre de Moraes, President of the Supreme Electoral Court, who upheld the fairness of Lula’s election and who, in the Federal Supreme Court, is commanding several actions against Bolsonaro and other radicals.

In one of the messages sent to Mauro Cid by former army major Ailton Barros, the military instructs assistant Bolsonaro to increase pressure on the then army commander, General Freire Gomes, to make a speech on national television, questioning the election of Lula in the elections. under the guise of alleged electoral fraud, as Jair Bolsonaro always claimed. In the message, when talking about the need to increase pressure on the army commander, it is clear that steps in this direction have already been taken before, and that the general did not condemn them, as was his duty.

In addition, according to various reports from Ailton Barros to Bolsonaro’s assistant, the deployment of the army commander should take place the next day, December 16, and it is important that the military commander does this, the former major stressed. give the coup an air of legitimacy. Two days later, on Sunday, December 18, adds the author of the audio recording, the military should come to the house of judge Alexandre de Moraes and arrest him under the pretext of participating in an alleged plot to elect Lula da Silva.

Finally, they detail the messages sent to Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, the person closest to Bolsonaro, on Monday, December 19, Jair Bolsonaro should declare a state of emergency in Brazil and promulgate the so-called law enforcement ordinances (GLOs). , transferring command of the country to the Armed Forces, of which he, as President of the Republic, was the supreme commander. It is still unclear why the plan to establish a new military dictatorship in Brazil was not carried out, but some indications show that the top military leadership was hesitant to get involved in the attack, and that this plan also clashed with Jair Bolsonaro himself, who, after being defeated by Lula in the October Presidential election became depressed and isolated in his official residence, crying all day, according to people who visited him.

Mauro Cid and Aylton Barros are two of six military and former military personnel linked to Jair Bolsonaro who were arrested Wednesday on charges of stealing data from the Ministry of Health’s national immunization system. Sid and others are accused of falsifying the vaccination bulletin of Jair Bolsonaro, family members and others close to the former president so that the ruler and his family could travel to the US, where the Covid-19 vaccination was mandatory at a time like this actually did Bolsonaro the day before the end of his term, fearing arrest when he lost the immunity that this position gave him.