Gleisi Hoffmann: "Either the coup plotters are prosecuted and judged, or they will try to seize control of the country again."
"Without just and educational punishment for everyone, from the leader to the executors, from the financiers to the propagandists, from the accomplices to those who remained silent, they will not give up," he emphasizes.
Gleisi Hoffmann, on X (formerly Twitter) - The information regarding Bolsonaro's coordination with the military leadership to stage a coup is extremely serious. Former commanders of the Army and Air Force confirmed that Bolsonaro, in his capacity as supreme commander of the Armed Forces, summoned them to prevent Lula from taking office and to remain in power, thus defrauding the will of the voters.
They confirmed that the ineligible candidate was aware that there had never been any error, irregularity, much less fraud in the electoral process or the electronic voting machines. And yet he wanted to change the result by force, at gunpoint, using the criminal and coup-plotting thesis of Dr. Ives Gandra, a military jurist, regarding the role of the Armed Forces in the Constitution.
It's terrible to know that the country was so close to experiencing another dictatorship, after so much struggle, so much sacrifice, and so many lives lost until we rebuilt democracy.
Even though its objective was thwarted, Bolsonaro's conspiracy is directly linked to the coup-mongering encampments in front of military barracks after the elections, to the criminal road blockades, to the savage attack on the Federal Police headquarters on the night of Lula's inauguration, to the fires and the terrorist attack on Brasília airport on Christmas Eve. It is directly linked to January 8th, to the invasion and destruction of the headquarters of the Three Branches of Government.
The coup was not completed, but that does not exonerate its masterminds, financiers, and much less its leader, because the crime is proven.
That's why they talk about amnesty, sullying a word of such significance in the history of democratic struggles. That's why they threaten institutions again, especially the Supreme Federal Court, where they are being prosecuted and will be judged. That's why they amplify the industry of lies on social media and call their followers to the streets. And they even dare to go abroad and lie even more, falsely claiming a dictatorship that would only exist in Brazil if they had remained in power.
We cannot fool ourselves: either the coup plotters are prosecuted and judged for their crimes, or they will try again to seize control of the country. Without just and educational punishment for everyone, from the leader to the executors, from the financiers to the propagandists, from the accomplices to those who remained silent, they will not give up.
No amnesty! Never again a coup!
