Haddad: Supreme Court needs to react to Bolsonaro's coup threat and restore Lula's rights now.
"The Supreme Court has the chance to respond to Bolsonaro's threat of a coup," stated former São Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad. "Restoring Lula's political rights is the bare minimum. The rest is up to the sovereign: the voter!" he added.
247 Former São Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad demanded that the Supreme Federal Court (STF) restore Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's political rights, after the Court granted the former president's defense the right to legal action. right to have access to the accounting systems used by Odebrecht (Drousys and MyWebDay) and also remove a section of the plea bargain testimony of former minister Antonio Palocci.
"The Supreme Court has the chance to respond to Bolsonaro's threat of a coup. Fulfilling its constitutional mission and doing what is expected of it: Justice. Moro played politics and deserves to be declared biased. Restoring Lula's political rights is the bare minimum. The rest is up to the sovereign: the voter!", Haddad wrote on Twitter.
Supreme Court Justice Ricardo Lewandowski also stated that, while serving as a judge in the Lava Jato Operation, Moro "violated the adversarial system, as well as the constitutional guarantees of due process and the right to a full defense".
Former President Lula was convicted without evidence in the Guarujá (SP) triplex case, accused of receiving an apartment as a bribe from OAS, but he never slept there nor had the key to the apartment.
In presenting the charges in September 2016, prosecutor Henrique Pozzobon admitted that there was no "conclusive evidence" that the former president owned the property.
According to a reporter In the Vaza Jato leaks, regarding irregularities in the operation of the Judiciary in Curitiba (PR), prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol doubted the existence of evidence against Lula.
According to reports known as Vaza Jato, published by the website Intercept Brasil, some in partnership with other media outlets, Moro acted as a kind of assistant prosecutor alongside prosecutors.
Moro also questioned prosecutor Laura Tessler's ability to interrogate the former president.
The former judge also requested additional information in the indictment of one defendant - Zwi Skornicki, representative of Keppel Fels, a shipyard that had contracts with Petrobras for the construction of oil platforms.
The former minister also issued the arrest warrant against Lula before all judicial appeals had been exhausted.