Speculations about what Jair Bolsonaro planned to ignore the triumph of Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva and that his plan was to destabilize the democratic order in Brazil ceased to be a mere hypothesis. The Brazilian police found in the house of a former Bolsonaro minister the draft of a decree with which the outgoing government thought to annul the results of the elections and maintain de facto power.
The document that proves the attempt to delegitimize the elections through which Lula returned to the presidency was found during a search at the house of Anderson Torres, who was Minister of Justice of the previous government.
The former official, who is in the United States, admitted the existence of that paper and, to try to absolve himself of guilt, He said he planned to “shred it in due course”.
What did the coup draft say?
The eraser has three pages and was found in the closet of the Torres house. He indicated that “with a view to restoring order and institutional peace” the “State of Defense” was decreed and the intervention of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) of that country.
He accused the members of that court of “abuse of power and unconstitutional measures” occurred “during the electoral process”, and “the correction” of those elections was decreed. and for it created an “electoral regularity commission” made up of Bolsonaro officials and legislators to organize a new vote.
In other terms, Bolsonaro’s destabilizing objective was to carry out a self-coup to keep him in power for a while longer, cast a new cloak of suspicion over Lula Da Silva and create the conditions to win a new election.
Torres’ home was raided because the former minister is suspected of having links to last Sunday’s revolt in which Bolsonaro groups took over the headquarters of the three powers, based in Brasilia.
What did Torres say in his defense?
Torres was in charge of the Secretary of Security in the Brazilian capital during the revolt that took place there last Sunday, and suspicions indicate that he could have generated the conditions so that the security forces would not act when these acts of violence began.
The former official is in the United Statesalthough he already anticipated that upon his return he will make himself available to Justice because he has “a clear conscience”, as he pointed out on Twitter.
“In my house there was a pile of documents to be discarded, where the material was most likely found” that was intended to destabilize the democratic order in Brazil, he explained on the social network. “All of that -he continued- would be taken to be crushed at the time in the MJSP” (Ministry of Justice and Public Security).
Then he maintained that “said document was taken when I was not there and leaked out of context, which helped fuel fallacious narratives against me.” And he assured: “I have a clear conscience regarding my role as a minister.”
The reaction of Lula’s officials
Upon learning of this evidence, published by the local press, various officials of the Lula government maintained that the document provides more certainty of the “premeditated coup attempt in detail” by Bolsonaro.
The minister of Institutional Relations, Alexandre Padilhaaffirmed that it has been proven that the purpose of the text was “manufacture chaos to bury democracy”. “The coup attempt was premeditated and outlined in detail, but we are not going to let the perpetrators of it get away with it,” he said.
For his part, the owner of the Ministry of Justice, Flavius Dinostressed that the objective of the draft decree “failed just like the attempt” coup last Sunday. This “emphasizes that what we saw here on January 8th was not isolated. In fact, it was an element of a chain, a link of a coup movement in Brazil and that there were amazing preparatory acts such as this decree of military intervention,” he stressed.