The Supreme Court of Brazil orders the residual resistance of former President Bolsonaro, an ally of Trump

Sao Paulo – The Supreme Court of Brazil ordered the resistance of former President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday, in trials for having allegedly certified a coup d’état To stay in office despite his defeat in the 2022 elections – a case that seized the country of South America when he faces A trade war with the Trump administration.

Judge Alexandre de MoraesWho oversees the case against Bolsonaro before the Superior Court, said in his decision that the former 70 -year -old president had violated precautionary measures imposed on him by publishing content on the social networks of his three sons of legislator.

The trial of the far -right chief receives renewed attention after US President Donald Trump equaled a 50% rate on Brazilian goods imported into the judicial situation of its ally. Trump qualified the “witch hunting” procedure, triggering nationalist reactions from leaders of all branches of power in Brazil, including President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The case against Bolsonaro

Brazil prosecutors accuse Bolsonaro of having led a criminal organization that plotted to cancel the elections, including plans to kill Lula And the Moraes judge after the far -right chief narrowly lost his re -election offer in 2022.

Monday’s ordinance followed one from the Superior Court last month which ordered Bolsonaro to wear an electronic ankle instructor and imposed a curfew on its activities while the procedure is underway.

Following the news of the arrest order, a member of the Brazilian federal police staff told the Associated Press that the federal agents had seized mobile phones at the Bolsonaro residence in the capital of Brasilia, as Moraes ordered it. The staff spoke under the cover of anonymity because of their lack of authorization to speak publicly about the issue.

Bolsonaro should Stay in Brasilia for his house arrest Because it is not allowed to travel. He also has a house in Rio de Janeiro, where he held his electoral base as a legislator for three decades. The former army captain is the fourth former president of Brazil to be arrested since the end of the country’s military regime from 1964 to 1985, which Bolsonaro argued.

‘Gowaming blatant’

The move of Brazilian justice occurs a day after tens of thousands of supporters of Bolsonaro took the streets in the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio, arguing that the Brazilian Congress forgives it as well as hundreds of others who are judged or imprisoned for their roles In the destruction of government buildings in Brasilia on January 8, 2023.

Bolsonaro addressed to supporters of Rio on Sunday by the phone of one of his sons that Moraes described as illegal.

“The blatant lack of respect for precautionary measures was so obvious that the defendant’s son, the senator Flávio Bolsonaro, decided to delete the publication in his Instagram profile, in order to hide legal transgression,” wrote Moraes.

The lawyers of the former Brazilian president did not comment after the decision. Flávio Bolsonaro said on X that Brazil “was officially in a dictatorship” after resistance to his father’s house.

“The persecution of Moraes against Bolsonaro has no limits!” The senator wrote.

De Moraes added in his decision that Jair Bolsonaro, who governed Brazil between 2019 and 2022, disseminated messages with “clear content of encouragement and instigation against the Supreme Court and flagrant support for foreign intervention in the Brazilian judicial power” – probably a veiled reference to the assistance of Trump for Bolsonaro.

De Moraes also said that Bolsonaro “was addressed to the demonstrators gathered in Copacabana, in Rio” on Sunday so that his supporters could “try to force the Supreme Court”.

Last week, the US Treasury Department announced sanctions against Moraes for an alleged suppression of freedom of expression and the current trial of Bolsonaro.

Possible problem to come

Creomar de Souza, political analyst of Dharma Political Risk and Strategy, a political consulting company based in Brasilia, said that the resistance to the house of Bolsonaro opens a new moment for the country’s opposition, which could come together in the fight against the re -election of Lula next year.

Now De Souza said: “The 2026 election looks like troubles” and the political debate in Brazil will probably be divided between two key struggles.

“One is the effort of Bolsonaro’s supporters to stay strong on the right, it doesn’t matter if he puts for the amnesty at Congress or puts himself physically,” said the analyst. “The second is the way Lula administration will try to show that the country has a government.”

“This is only the beginning,” he concluded.

The last decision of the high -level court maintains Bolsonaro under the surveillance of the ankle, only allows family members and lawyers to visit them and enter all mobile phones from their home.

Lula was imprisoned for 580 days Between 2018 and 2019 in a condemnation of corruption which was then thrown by the Supreme Court, quoting the judge’s bias in the case.

Michel Temer, who became president after the Dilma Rousseff dismissal in 2016, was arrested for 10 days in 2019 as part of a transplant investigation, which then ended without conviction.

Earlier this year, Moraes ordered the detention of President Fernando Collor, who was based from 1990 to 1992 until his dismissal. The former 75 -year -old president was sentenced for money laundering and corruption in 2023 and is now serving his sentence of more than eight years.