PT deputies and parties that support the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva evaluate as very serious complaint of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) against the former president Jair Bolsonaro and 33 more people for the crimes of coup, violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law and criminal organization. At a news conference on Wednesday (19), they also rejected the possibility of approving an amnesty to those involved in the undemocratic acts of January 8, 2023. 
The leader of the PT bench in the House, Deputy Lindbergh Farias (PT-RJ), said the revelations are themselves and shock the country. “No one here is celebrating because the former president was reported, will be tried and convicted by the Federal Supreme Court. The facts here are very serious, this is one of the saddest pages in the country’s history. ”
He also defended justice to all involved in the crimes cited in the complaint. “Brazil needs to clean this story. What happened is very serious, it has to do with democracy, with the strengthening of our institutions. ”
PT President Gleisi Hoffmann (PT-PR) said the party defends due process of law for those involved. “The place of these people is in the defendants’ bench and that’s where they will be. And this will only happen because Bolsonaro was not [eleito novamente] President, because if they were president we would not have guaranteed due process for anything in this country. ”
Gleisi estimates that the complaint makes it very clear that the intention was to prevent Lula from taking over the presidency of Brazil. “Bolsonaro knew that to defeat Lula he had to defeat the electoral process, he had to defeat the democratic rule of law, democracy.”
Deputy Jandira Feghali (PCdoB-RJ), who was part of the Mixed Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI) on January 8, recalled that for the first time in Brazil scammers will be punished. “The torture puppies of the military dictatorship are there and tried to get a new blow,” he said.
Brasília (DF), 02/19/2025 – Deputies and Senators of the left during a press conference in the Green Hall of the House – Lula Marques/Agência Brasil
Opposition
Earlier, opposition deputies in the House of Representatives also made a press conference to comment on the complaint. Representative Zucco (PL-RS), the opposition leader in the House, read a manifesto on behalf of the group arguing that PGR’s complaint against Bolsonaro represents “another step in the criminal climb against the freedom of Brazilians.”
“These are a series of accusations devoid of concrete evidence that supports the serious accusations imputed. A true piece of fiction, a commissioned complaint, ”argues the document.
Brasília (DF), 02/19/2025 – Opposition deputies and senators during a press statement. Photo: Lula Marques/Agência Brasil – Lula Marques/Agência Brasil
The parliamentarian also warned of the “exception state that is silently installed” in the country. According to Zucco, Brazil is experiencing a process of censorship, political persecution and attack on individual and collective freedoms.
Carrying posters with the words “political persecution” and “amnesty now”, the opposition appealed to international human rights organizations to press the responsible authorities about the situation in Brazil.
