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PSL will request Bolsonaro's impeachment.

The leader of the PSL in the Chamber of Deputies, federal deputy Joice Hasselman (PSL-SP), filed a request for impeachment against Jair Bolsonaro on Friday night (24). The argument of the request is that there was ideological falsehood in the publication of the Official Gazette, which reported the dismissal of Maurício Valeixo at his own request.

Joice Hasselman and Jair Bolsonaro (Photo: Valter Campanato/Agência Brasil | REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino)

247 - Federal congresswoman Joice Hasselman (PSL-SP), leader of the party in the Chamber of Deputies, filed an impeachment request against Jair Bolsonaro. The party will argue that there was a crime of falsifying official documents in the publication in the Official Gazette of the Union regarding the dismissal of Maurício Valeixo "at his own request," the former director-general of the Federal Police, at his own request. 

The report from the Uol portal It emphasizes that "the PSL will also defend 'Bolsonaro's notorious attempt to interfere in the Federal Police, taking advantage of the prerogatives of Head of State, in order to obtain sensitive and privileged information from an institution whose independence should be a pillar of the Democratic Rule of Law, including an attempt to interfere in ongoing investigations.'"