Sérgio Moro: Since then — look, we're talking about 1999 — the STF understood that jurisdiction by prerogative of forum, prerogative of office, no longer extended to those who had ended their term or had left the office that attracted the special jurisdiction by virtue of office.
Sérgio Moro: The STF, however, at the beginning of this year, in March 2025, in a case not related, it is true, to this Bolsonaro case or to that of the January 8 protesters, decided to alter that understanding.
It changed a consolidated jurisprudence of more than 20 years, which, at the moment, came to seem like an ad hoc change, that is: 'We do not have jurisdiction to try and prosecute former President Jair Bolsonaro because of our jurisprudence that dates from 1999, but we will change it now,' and that made it possible to argue now, in this criminal case pending before the STF, that they had such jurisdiction.
Sérgio Moro: That does not change the fact that Alexandre Ramagem, Federal Deputy, is listed as a defendant in the criminal case.
Sérgio Moro: Why? Because, although he is today a Federal Deputy, the facts imputed to him, the actions imputed to him, are prior to the exercise of his mandate.