On Friday (24/2), Minister of the Federal Supreme Court Alexandre de Moraes voted in favor of a criminal complaint filed by Federal Representative Tabata Amaral (PSB-SP) against Representative Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP). ) for defamation and spreading false news. The son of the former president said, in a series of posts on social media, that the parliamentarian was going to prepare a bill “with the aim of illegally benefiting third parties.”
The proposal addresses the distribution of sanitary pads in public places. For Morais, the statements “constitute crimes that go beyond the limits of political criticism, because they constitute a violation of the right of the individual to express his ideas, completely outside the parliamentary functions and duties.”
misogynistic tone
The minister also highlighted Eduardo Bolsonaro’s misogynist rhetoric. “The federal MP, in reference posts, on the digital platform Twitter, extrapolating his parliamentary immunity for publicly expressing statements misogynistic and in contravention of the principles enshrined in the Federal Constitution, the illegality of which must be duly assessed by this Supreme Court,” the vote stressed.
Minister Dias Toffoli had dismissed the criminal complaint in May last year. At the time, the judge argued that parliamentary immunity supported Eduardo Bolsonaro’s statements in this case. However, Moraes asked for a review, that is, more time to analyze the procedure, and the case went to the court’s virtual plenary session. The trial began on Friday and is expected to conclude on the 3rd.
The attack occurred in 2021, after Amaral rejected former President Jair Bolsonaro’s (PL) veto of a bill that would distribute sanitary pads to low-income women. Eduardo Bolsonaro said the deputy acted “almost childishly” in order to “attend the lobby of her patron mentor Jorge Paulo Lehmann, one of the owners of sanitary napkin producer P&G, rather than actually benefit the public”.
Eduardo Bolsonaro also stated on the Internet that Tabata Amaral is funded by Lemann and also said that the billionaire is from P&G, a consumer goods company that manufactures, among other things, sanitary pads. The information is wrong.
