The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, greets his supporters this Thursday in a hospital in São Paulo after being discharged for medical reasons.Sebastiao Moreira (EFE)
Brazilian Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, who was Jair Bolsonaro’s private secretary for four years, has reportedly told police that the quiet president met with the military leadership after the election defeat to advise them on a possible coup .published this Thursday from the digital media UOL. The information also states that the then president received a draft coup decree from an adviser, which outlined the path for calling new elections and imprisoning political opponents. These confessions, which the Bolsonaro police have not yet confirmed or denied, would be part of the military’s recent cooperation agreement with the judiciary.
UOL information claims that Cid told police that he witnessed both the meeting with the adviser who delivered the coup order and the meeting with the military leaders. He also added that the Navy commander was the only one among the members of the Armed Forces leadership present who openly expressed his support for the maneuvers to involve the legitimate winner of the election, the leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva prevent govern.
Former President Bolsonaro is barred from taking part in elections for the next eight years and has appealed this decision. The hearing to consider the appeal begins this Friday. At the same time, a long series of cases are being investigated against him. In the investigation into the January 8 coup attempt, he is identified as the suspected instigator of the attack on the headquarters of the three powers carried out by thousands of his supporters. The first trials, which took place last week, resulted in prison sentences of between 17 and 14 years.
The former private secretary is former President Bolsonaro’s weakest flank. He lived with him daily during his term; he was the man who accompanied him around the clock and brought him his cell phone.
Cid agreed to sign an award-winning Delacão – a controversial instrument of cooperation with the judiciary – after spending four months in prison on charges of falsifying his family’s vaccination records and those of President Bolsonaro. A day after the judge accepted the cooperation agreement, Cid was released from prison. Forced to wear an electronic ankle bracelet and other restrictions, he has settled in a military residence in Brasilia and continues to receive his salary of 5,000 euros per month.
The soldier was one of the few collaborators who accompanied the former president during his three-month stay in Florida after his term ended. Cid is also accused of complicity in the machinations of his former boss, who first kept some very expensive jewelry given by the royal family of Saudi Arabia during an official visit and then sold them.
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According to the story of Bolsonaro’s private secretary, at a meeting with his main adviser on international affairs, Felipe Martins, attended by a constitutional lawyer and a priest, he received a draft decree committing a violation of the constitutional order.
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