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By participating in a video conference debate organized by TV ConJur, the former presidents also asked President Jair Bolsonaro to avoid conflicts with other powers, promoting the union of society.
During the debate, the former presidents did not even mention that Bolsonaro would specifically go to events in Brasilia with undemocratic and unconstitutional agendas.
This Sunday (3), Bolsonaro participated in a demonstration against the Supreme Court, the National Congress and with banners calling for military intervention.
For former presidents, the moment requires dialogue, and Bolsonaro should adopt a conciliatory tone.
According to the Legal Consultant website, the organizer of the video conference, former President José Sarney was invited, but said he would have another appointment. Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, still according to the website, rejected the invitation, and former President Dilma Rousseff did not respond.
What the former presidents said
In the video conference, Temer said he even called Bolsonaro for advice. One of those pieces of advice, according to the former president, was for Bolsonaro to decree social isolation for “10 or 12 days” and the other, not to speak every day with supporters and the press.
“The president often does the country’s agenda. He says it in the morning and he spends the day in conflict,” he said.
“The crisis […] advanced, it is a crisis of the institutions. The institutional crisis arises from the word, from the verb, that is, we have to overcome this moment, “he added, at another moment.
In FHC’s assessment, “we are close to an institutional crisis.”
“Right now, I think the Armed Forces have an important role and I think they have understood the role so far, which is to make the Federal Constitution count. There is no other way to go further than to respect the Constitution,” he said.
For Collor, “an institutional crisis is already brewing,” and Bolsonaro’s words “create riots and exasperation” when the country needs “peace.”
Even in the evaluation of the former president, the head of the Executive Branch can help with “his behavior”, not with “dissonances that he comes every day bringing with this glass so difficult to drink.
Relationship with the legislature
Commenting on the relationship between the Executive and Legislative branches, FHC said that Bolsonaro, “instead of causing cohesion, causes a rupture.” He also said that Bolsonaro “is not the state” and that he has to take people’s opinions into account.
The former president pointed out that the country lives in a democracy and that it is necessary to listen to Parliament and form a majority if it wants to govern calmly. “Whoever has difficulties in forming a majority, collides with Congress, has difficulties in maintaining himself,” he said.
“When isolated, it is very difficult to govern,” he said. However, he said that it was necessary to be cautious with “radical measures”, such as impeachment.
Fear was on the same line. He said that “who governs is not only the Executive.” “Who governs is the Executive along with the Legislative,” he said. When President of the Republic, the emedebista repeated this phrase constantly.
“The Executive executes the popular power and who is the one who vocalizes the will of the people? It is the law. And who makes the law is the Legislative,” he added.
Relationship with the judiciary
When analyzing the relationship between the Executive and the Judiciary, FHC and Collor commented on the decision of the Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Supreme Federal Court, which prohibited the appointment of Alexandre Ramagem to the General Directorate of the Federal Police. The decision sparked Bolsonaro’s criticism of the STF’s role.
Collor pointed out that it is up to the President of the Republic to make the nomination for the post and that “perhaps” there have been “adjustments by the Judiciary to prevent the Director of the Federal Police from taking office.”
“On this specific issue of the appointment of the director general of the Federal Police, I think that now, from the outside, it may not be interesting for the Supreme Federal Court to have entered into this merit, because it is a private act of the President of the Republic,” he said. .
For FHC, since Bolsonaro “bets on aggression” and “opens the space for other powers to want to fulfill functions that are proper to the Executive.”
“I think that the current president, in his attempt at aggression, unlike cohesion, leaves room for other powers to want to fulfill functions that are proper to the Executive. I think that the Judiciary, which has behaved quite well now, has exaggerated ” It was beyond what is constitutional, its duty. You cannot give the president the excuse of saying to the country: “Look, I cannot govern because I am being blocked.” That is what he is saying. on time, “he said.
