Jair Bolsonaro put the judge who quashed Lula’s sentences on suspicion

The Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, Monday put the magistrate under suspicion Edson Fachin, member of the Supreme Court who overturned the prison sentences against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

“Magistrate Fachin had an excellent connection with the PTBolsonaro said, referring to the Workers’ Party, founded in 1980 by Lula, which has led this formation since then.

According to Bolsonaro, leader of an emerging far-right and a major antagonist of Lula and the PT, “obviously this decision»By Fachin It must be analyzed by the plenary session of the Supreme, which depends on the existence of an appeal against the decision canceling the sentences, in which the Attorney General’s Office is already working.

Fachin’s decision concerns four processes in which Lula was tried by a court of first instance in Curitiba, in charge of then-judge Sergio Moro, on which she considered that at the time she had no “legal competence” to analyze these cases.

According to Fachin, head of the Supreme Court for the anti-corruption operation Lava Jato, These cases must now pass through the orbit of federal justice in Brasilia, which will decide the course of each of them.

In two of these processes, Lula was sentenced to almost 25 years in prison., from which he served 580 days until he was released by a decision of the Supreme Court itself, which changed its own case law and ruled that a person can only enter prison when they are not has more remedies available, which was not the case with the first President.

Fachin justified his decision in that these cases, in which Lula was accused of receiving bribes from some of the companies involved in the Lava Jato scandal, were not directly related to the misappropriation of Petrobras public property, which justified the processes of Lava Jato.

With the Fachin judgment, which is based on what he describes as a “procedural error” due to a “lack of jurisdiction”, Lula is now recovering his political rights and could be a presidential candidate again in 2022, in which Bolsonaro intends to renew his mandate.

In this sense, Bolsonaro said he was convinced that “the Brazilian people wouldn’t even want to have a candidate like that in 2022, let alone think about voting for him“, Because” at the end of the day, all the scandals that have arisen in his government are clear in front of all of society. “

(With information from EFE)

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