Brazil's Attorney General says there is no evidence that Bolsonaro-aligned congressmen incited coup plotters and defends the inauguration.

247 - The Attorney General's Office (PGR) has expressed its opposition to the suspension of the inauguration of deputies suspected of involvement in the coup attempts of January 8th in Brasília.

The request to suspend the inauguration of the parliamentarians was submitted by the legal group Prerrogativas.

In the response sent to the STF this Saturday (28), signed by the Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, Carlos Frederico Santos, the action should be dismissed.

"Since, to date, there is no evidence indicating that the deputies named in the petition contributed, even through incitement, to the crimes committed on January 8, 2023, there is no just cause for initiating an investigation or for including, in principle, the parliamentarians in the investigative procedures already initiated to determine the authorship of the acts of violence," argued the deputy attorney general.

According to the Attorney General's Office, the assessment of each member of parliament's conduct falls to the Ethics Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, as stipulated in the Chamber's internal regulations, since the parliamentarians were sworn in in December and are therefore already in office.

The Prerogativas group identified eleven members of parliament who endorsed the coup attempts. They are:

André Fernandes (PL-CE);

Carlos Jordy (PL-RJ);

Luiz Ovando (PP-MS)

Marcos Pollon (PL-MS);

Rodolfo Nogueira (PL-MS);

João Henrique Catan (PL-MS);

Silvia Waiãpi (PL-AP);

Nikolas Ferreira (PL-MG);

Sergeant Rodrigues (PL-MG);

Walber Virgolino (PL-PB).

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