Bolsonaristas will push for the impeachment of the judge who ordered the house arrest of the former president

São Paulo.- A group of Brazilian lawmakers from the far-right stated this Tuesday that they will push for the impeachment of the magistrate of the Supreme Court Alexandre de Moraes in the Senate, after he ordered the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday.

The parliamentarians, gathered on the ramp of the Congress headquarters in Brasilia, told the media that they will present what they called a "peace package" to "pacify" the country. This includes removing De Moraes, the instructor in the case against Bolsonaro for an alleged coup attempt, who yesterday imposed house arrest on him for violating previous precautionary measures regarding the use of social media during last weekend's protests. Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, one of the former president's sons, pointed out that the measure against the president was a "legal aberration" and attributed the magistrate's decision to a desire for "revenge". "The solution to Brazil's problems is here in Congress," he declared. Furthermore, parliamentarians will again propose a "broad" amnesty for those who participated in the events of January 8, 2023, when thousands of supporters of the former president violently invaded the headquarters of the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Congress in Brasilia to call for military intervention against the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Far-right lawmakers have long defended amnesty, but the projects proposed with that objective have not obtained sufficient support in Congress given the firm opposition of Lula's government.

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The third element of the package is a constitutional amendment to end parliamentary immunity, so that lawmakers are tried by courts of first instance and not in the Supreme Court, as is currently the case.

According to Senator Rogério Marinho, what was conceived as a "shield" to protect parliamentarians is now a "weapon of subordination" before the Supreme Court. Ultra lawmakers expressed their frustration with the Senate President, David Alcolumbre, an ally of Lula who has so far stalled most of these proposals, and threatened to obstruct the processing of projects if they are not heard. "He may be an ally of the Government, but he cannot turn his back on the institution," he declared.