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27 statements · 1 politicians · December 3, 2025
Statements by Flavio Bolsonaro. 27 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified.
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Well, Mr. President, I'm counting here, I'm still the ninth Parliamentarian who is speaking.
There are many people to speak, and Your Excellency is right, because this is an institutional matter.
But what is happening today, President Davi, has been happening for a long time: the abuses that have been practiced, tolerated until now because they were against Bolsonaro or because they were against someone from the right.
And it is symptomatic, President Davi. Making the caveat about Senator Randolfe Rodrigues, I haven't seen anyone else from the PT take the floor.
I was even glad to know that, at least, even if in a more technical, measured and timid way... but it is important that it be done, because this is a matter that is above any party.
Because this situation, President Davi, of changing not only laws through judicial decisions, but even changing precedents of the Court itself to achieve certain specific objectives, has been happening for quite some time.
They changed the forum by prerogative to keep President Bolsonaro's trial in the Supreme Court; they changed the understanding that, in situations like his and many others, the trial, instead of being by a panel, would be in the Plenary.
They changed it to catch Bolsonaro. They ended, they repealed from the law, Senator Tereza, the institute of recusal, which had been tolerated, for the sake of democracy, to imprison a dictator, and a judge who has a vested interest in a case can say, "no," despite my being the supposed victim, despite my having chosen the investigators, despite my having acted as the Public Prosecutor, despite my being the judge, despite my family having been threatened, there's no problem at all.
I can continue judging these people who supposedly committed some criminal act.
But it was for the sake of democracy. You can legitimize censorship in Brazil, because, like the film, Senator Girão, a documentary by Brasil Paralelo that dealt with the stabbing of Jair Bolsonaro was going to be made available to its subscribers...
It's that famous line in the trial at the TSE: "censorship is repugnant, it is unconstitutional, it is intolerable, it is a spawn of the dictatorship, but this time, we'll accept the torture, just until the elections are over."
But it was against Bolsonaro, so it was fine.
The right is a threat to the rule of law, to the democratic rule of law, and so it has been, systematically.
And then it reaches an institutional point: now the victim is no longer a CPF, the victim is a CNPJ.
The victim is a Power of the Republic, it is one of the pillars of democracy.
And I only remember, Senator Damares — for those who have read Machado de Assis — the work O Alienista, in which a supposed doctor begins to run an experiment in the town — by coincidence, a town called Itaguaí: there's one with that name in Rio de Janeiro — and he begins to commit those people who, according to his criteria, Simão Bacamarte, he thinks are insane.
So, if someone is insane, by his subjective and authoritarian criterion, he goes and commits them to the asylum.
But he committed the first person and the neighbor said, "Ah, it's only him."
Soon after, he committed the whole family: "It wasn't my family, all right."
Soon after he committed the entire town, and then there was no one left to appeal to.
And, in the end, the doctor who conducts the experiment concludes that he is the only sane person in the whole town and he commits himself too.
And today the Senate is being interned. Several people have been interned, accused of being coup-plotters, accused of committing crimes, and now the Senate itself is a victim of this lawfare, of this judicial activism.
This is the plain and simple truth. And why is this Plenary almost empty already?
Is it because Senators are afraid to come here to speak because they think it will never happen to them?
With several colleagues I talk to here, I say: at some point the whip will change hands; today the victims are us, tomorrow the victims will be you.
This is not a partisan issue, it is not because it is someone from my family, it is because it is an injustice: we have no one to turn to.
And now who are we going to turn to? I hope that we ourselves will be self-sufficient to get through this moment, because that was exactly the point I asked in the hearing d
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