Bolsonaro again asks the Federal Supreme Court for his passport to travel to Israel

Former Brazilian president JairBolsonaro He requested this Friday that the Supreme Court temporarily return his passport, which he had retained for almost three months, to travel to Israel and respond to an invitation from the prime minister. Benjamin Netanyahu.

The right-wing leader had requested the same and with the same excuse to travel to Tel Aviv last March, but the court refused to return his passport because it considered that both the ban on leaving the country and other precautionary measures against him continue. in force and are “appropriate and necessary”.

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In this new request, the former president’s lawyers (2019-2022) explained that the trip Now it would be in May, for a stay of “six days and seven nights” and on a “date to be defined”.

The former president’s passport has been withheld by the Supreme Court since February 8th, when a police operation was carried out around the hard core of Bolsonarism, as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to annul the 2022 presidential elections.

These elections were won by the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, But Bolsonaro did not recognize the results of the polls and, it is suspected, planned a maneuver with some of his advisors to intervene in the electoral justice system, declare a state of siege and remain in power.

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In March, when applying for a passport to travel to Israel for the first time, Bolsonaro was the target of another investigation at the Supreme Court, in this case for having spent two days at the Hungarian Embassy in Brasília, which sparked speculation about a possible asylum request. .

This research, however, It was archived this week, as the court found that this stay in the diplomatic delegation did not violate any of the precautionary measures. that weigh against him and that the hypothetical asylum request has not been verified.

Even so, due to this episode, Itamaraty summoned the Hungarian ambassador, Miklós Halmai, to explain the former ruler’s stay at the embassy, ​​which was justified by the “excellent relationship” that Bolsonaro maintains with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, another emblematic figure of the right.

Source: Elcomercio

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