Senator Marcos do Val (Podemos-ES) said, this Thursday (2), that he participated in a meeting with former president Jair Bolsonaro and former deputy Daniel Silveira, which aimed to induce the minister of the Supreme Court (STF), Alexandre de Moraes, to “recognise” that he went beyond the four lines of the Constitution with the former President of the Republic.
The mission, according to the parliamentarian, was passed on in December by former deputy Daniel Silveira, who scheduled and conducted the entire meeting. The senator added that Silveira asked that the meeting with Moraes be recorded. The audio, as planned by the former deputy, would be leaked so that it would appear legal. The parliamentarian also said that President Jair Bolsonaro remained silent the whole time and that no one else participated in the conversation.
Do Val said that since he had never been invited to any meeting with Jair Bolsonaro, he sought out Moraes, to whom he spoke about the invitation to the meeting and asked for guidance on whether or not he should go. In the parliamentarian’s version, the magistrate advised him to go to the meeting and hear what the deputy and the president wanted.
The parliamentarian said that so that he would not be identified, Silveira set a meeting point where the senator got into an unmarked car heading to Granja do Torto, where the meeting would have taken place. He also said that he promptly rejected the idea, but later, faced with Daniel Silveira’s insistence, to get out of the situation, he said he was going to “think about it”. A few days later, the senator contacted the former deputy, stating that he could not fulfill the mission.
recoil
Marcos Do Val’s statements came hours after he had made a live on social networks in which he said he was pressured by the then President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, to participate in a plan to carry out a coup d’état. “You wait. I’m going to drop a bombshell here for you: Friday, it will come out on [revista] See, Bolsonaro’s attempt, which coerced me so that I could carry out a coup d’état together with him. Just so you guys have an idea. And of course I denounced it”, said the senator in the broadcast.
This morning, Do Val went back on his statement about the former president and repeated several times that Bolsonaro remained silent the entire time at the meeting. Another step back from Do Val was about his parliamentary future. During this early morning he even said that he would leave political life, but today he said he received a lot of support from colleagues from various parties and signaled that he should continue in office until 2026.
During this morning’s session in the Senate plenary session, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), said that Val’s denunciation does not constitute “any kind of crime”. “I ask here, obviously, that all clarifications be made and I am not asking here for an inquiry to be opened, because the narrated situation does not constitute any type of crime. But that all clarifications are made so that narratives do not remain on top of narratives in order to overcome the facts. The fact is that on December 31, President Bolsonaro left the presidency, ”he said.
Federal Police
This Thursday, Minister Alexandre de Moraes accepted a request from the Federal Police (PF) and determined that Senator Marcos do Val testify within five days. The PF wants to hear the parliamentarian about an alleged coup attempt articulated by former president Jair Bolsonaro and former deputy Daniel Silveira (PTB-RJ).
