Hugo Motta's statement regarding January 8th encourages Bolsonaro, who is again pushing for amnesty.
New Speaker of the House denies coup d'état. Bolsonaro sees hope.
247 - After the new president of the Chamber of Deputies, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), signaled to the coup plotters and defended the idea that January 8th did not represent an attempted coup d'état, Jair Bolsonaro (PL) became encouraged.
The former occupant of the Palácio do Planalto (Presidential Palace), who defends amnesty for those responsible for anti-democratic acts while facing possible imprisonment for his involvement in the coup plot, wished Motta luck in the endeavor that could, in the end, directly benefit him.
“May God continue to illuminate our president Hugo Motta, and may fathers and mothers soon be able to embrace their children again. This amnesty is not political, it is humanitarian,” Bolsonaro highlighted in a message sent on WhatsApp to a number of media outlets, this Saturday (8).
On Friday (7), Motta contested the interpretation that the events of January 8 represented an attempted coup d'état. According to the parliamentarian, in the absence of a leader capable of coordinating a rupture of the democratic regime, the episode amounted to an action by "vandals and troublemakers" who sought to express revolt, without constituting a real threat to the institutional order.
The statements were widely condemned by the democratic camp in the National Congress and by the legal community, which also rejected attempts to resume discussions on the amnesty bill for the coup plotters.
