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BRASÍLIA – President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday that he does not want “any privilege,” but “strictly symmetrical treatment” to that given to other authorities in similar situations. The statement was published on a social network, after the Attorney General’s Office (AGU) filed an appeal contrary to the decision of Minister Celso de Mello, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), which obliges the president to render personally a statement, in the investigation that he investigates interference with the Federal Police.
“Privileges are not requested, but a strictly symmetrical treatment of the one adopted for the same acts in absolutely identical circumstances in recent precedents of the STF itself,” wrote Bolsonaro, who traveled this morning to the Northeast to inaugurate a photovoltaic plant. in Coremas (PB).
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In the appeal sent to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, the AGU asks the president to give a written statement or that the Federal Police wait until the full STF decides on Celso de Mello’s determination.
The investigation investigates whether President Jair Bolsonaro politically interfered with the Federal Police, as alleged by former minister Sergio Moro. In April, when announcing his departure from office, Moro stated that the president wanted a person in charge of the PF with whom “he could call, who could gather intelligence information, and it is really not the function of the Federal Police to provide that information.”
The STF minister’s decision on the investigation was published last Friday. According to Celso de Mello, the prerogative to speak in writing to the Heads of the Three Powers of the Republic is exclusive to witnesses or victims in trials, different from Bolsonaro’s condition, which is being investigated in the case. The minister also determined that Moro has the right to participate in the interrogation and ask questions through his lawyers.
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In 2018, STF Minister Luís Roberto Barroso granted then-President Michel Temer the right to give written testimony in the investigation opened by JBS executives. Unlike Celso de Mello, Barroso understood at the time that the provision of written testimony also applied in the cases of heads of power investigated.
If the agenda is for the evaluation of the plenary, three ministers heard by GLOBO have already said, in a reserved nature, that they disagree with Celso de Mello’s decision. According to them, face-to-face testimony would be “unnecessary.”
