Bolsonaro will appeal to international organizations against the verdict that deprived him of the right to participate in elections

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party (PL), who has disrespectfully harassed nearly every international body in his four years in office, appears to have changed his mind about those bodies and no longer sees them as being dominated, as he claimed. , “communists”. So much so that he intends to appeal to one of them, the Organization of American States (OAS), against the decision of the Brazilian Supreme Electoral Court (TSE), which in June deprived him of the right to participate in elections and made the project to run for president in 2026 unfeasible. .

Unexpected information was put forward by the chairman of the PL, Valdemar da Costa Neto, who added that Bolsonaro and the party would appeal the verdict in all possible instances inside and outside Brazil. The LP has already appealed the verdict to the TSE itself and is awaiting a response, and if it is not in favor of the former president, it will appeal to the Federal Supreme Court (STF), without prejudice to appeals in international bodies.

“We are in the same boat as Bolsonaro and we are not going to leave. Rest assured, we will try to reverse this decision. Everything changes, and in two or three years they can change a lot, ”said Waldemar. , trying to show optimism in lifting the suspension of Jair Bolsonaro, which, however, is not the only and perhaps not the biggest problem of the former president.

At the TSE, Bolsonaro faces 15 more actions that could lead to new convictions, he is under investigation in several other trials at the STF, and, in the most worrying case, he could be arrested at any time as part of an investigation by the Federal Police, which accuses him of that he embezzled money and sold in the United States valuable gifts of gold and precious stones offered to Brazil (and not to him) by foreign governments during his mandate.

Bolsonaro has so far cooperated with the investigation, he testified whenever he was called and denied that he sold or sold anything, although he admitted that he kept some of these gifts because, in his opinion, they were personal items such as Rolex and Chopard watches in white and rose gold with diamonds, but which he returned last March by court order. But last Thursday, August 31, when he was called again, he went to corporate headquarters, but refused to testify on the grounds that he did not recognize the competence of the Federal Supreme Court to conduct an investigation.

The sudden change in Bolsonaro’s attitude came after his former aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, who had been arrested in Brasilia since May, decided to break the silence he had kept until now and negotiated an award-winning cooperation with justice aimed at freedom. and, if convicted, commutation of the sentence. The military decided to speak out after Bolsonaro, trying to evade accusations, said a few days ago that if something illegal was done, it might have been done by Mauro Cid, who, according to the former head of state, had very much autonomy.

Sid did not like this, he felt abandoned by the one who was protected by his silence, and began to speak. Bolsonaro, unable to find out what the former subordinate said, since Sid’s testimony is kept in the strictest confidence, he chose to remain silent so as not to contradict the statements of the military and not risk being heard directly from prison. during precipitation.