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The prosecutor of the Republic, Raquel Branquinho, officially said that President Jair Bolsonaro violated the Constitution by ordering the Army to repeal the ordinances that facilitated the tracking of arms and ammunition.
Branquinho prepared a letter that is being processed within the attorney general’s office and the agency will now decide whether to open a procedure to investigate the president’s conduct. The request to open an investigation was revealed by the newspaper “O Estado de S.Paulo”. Globo TV also had access to the document. If the attorney general’s office sues the courts, Bolsonaro can even answer for administrative wrongdoing.
The ordinances related to the letter were published by the Army. On April 17, the president wrote on a social network that he had ordered the repeal of the texts. For the prosecutor, there are elements that point to Bolsonaro’s interference in exclusive acts of the Army.
By doing so, that is, avoiding the edition of norms compatible with the constitutional order and that are necessary for the exercise of the activity carried out by the Army command, the President of the Republic violates the Federal Constitution, to the extent that that prevents the efficient protection of a relevant and essential asset for Brazilian citizens, which is public security, “wrote the prosecutor.
The texts established greater control over weapons and ammunition, but Bolsonaro affirmed that they were against the proposals he has presented since the electoral campaign.
For Raquel Branquinho, the episode represents an extremely serious situation and has the potential to exacerbate the public security crisis in the country. This is because, according to the prosecutor, there is no doubt that, according to the legislation, the Logistics Command of the Brazilian Army is responsible for inspecting controlled products, such as weapons and ammunition.
- The government publishes an ordinance that increases the ammunition purchase limit for those with registered weapons
According to the prosecutor, in this matter, there is no place for volunteering on the part of the president, despite the fact that the measure is governed by “good intentions.”
“The regulatory powers of the President of the Republic exist and are based on the Constitution of the Republic and the law, so there is no room for voluntary ideas and attitudes, even if they are based on good intentions,” he wrote.
In Branquinho’s assessment, relaxing the rules can favor organized crime.
“It is a public and well-known fact that the absence of conditions for the control, traceability and identification of imported weapons and ammunition for the purpose of sports activities and collection, among other purposes, in certain situations, hide real criminal organizations that practice smuggling of arms and ammunition and supplies militias and other criminal factions. The city of Rio de Janeiro is the most visible face of this lack of effective control over the entry of weapons into the country, “he said.
