Brazil's Attorney General opposes Bolsonaro's request to prevent Moraes from acting in the investigation of the coup plot.
Paulo Gonet argues that the Supreme Court Justice does not appear as a victim in the investigation, since the target would be the 'collective'.
247 - The Attorney General's Office (PGR) has expressed its opposition to the request from Jair Bolsonaro's (PL) defense to declare Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes ineligible to participate in the investigation into an alleged coup d'état to prevent the inauguration of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).
In February, the president of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), Justice Luís Roberto Barroso, denied Bolsonaro's initial request. The former president's defense filed an appeal and requested that the case be reviewed by the full Court.
According to the newspaper The Globe"The Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, argued that the appeal should not be considered, meaning that it should be rejected without analysis of the merits. According to Gonet, the defense did not present the grounds for the challenged decision in the appeal and 'merely reiterated the arguments from the initial filing'."
Furthermore, the Attorney General's Office also refuted one of Bolsonaro's main arguments, that Moraes could not participate in the investigation because he was one of the victims, since there was a plan to monitor him. Gonet considered, however, that the investigated conduct "has as its passive subject the collective, and not an individualized victim."