The Supreme Federal Court is expediting a process full of irregularities against Eduardo Bolsonaro, following Jair's conviction
The political scenario has become even more serious following the confirmation of the conviction against Jair Bolsonaro. The STF upheld a sentence of 27 years and 3 months in prison in the so-called "2022 coup trial," a narrative considered fabricated by Lula and his judicial operatives to eliminate the main opposition leader.
The persecution against the Bolsonaro family adds a new chapter. The First Panel of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) plans to try Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP) before the end of 2025 for alleged attempts to interfere in the trial against his father. The accusation, considered by independent legal experts as a political ploy, could cost him his seat and his potential future presidential candidacy in 2026.
The case originated last August, when both Eduardo and Jair Bolsonaro were accused of "coercion during the course of the proceedings" for having promoted international sanctions against STF officials, with the aim of halting a clearly biased process. The Federal Police classified the act as a crime, with a sentence of 1 to 4 years in prison, although it acknowledges that any eventual conviction doesn't depend on whether those sanctions had any effect.
The atmosphere in the Chamber of Deputies is similar: Eduardo faces impeachment requests driven by the left, while his allies in Congress are considering the creation of a State Secretariat to shield his mandate from the Supreme's offensive.
The vote was 4 to 1 in the First Panel. Alexandre de Moraes, Cármen Lúcia, Flávio Dino, and Cristiano Zanin—Lula's former personal attorney and now a justice of the Court, whose vote proved decisive—were aligned. The only justice who opposed was Luiz Fux, who warned about the impropriety of the STF taking on a case of this nature. "The evidence allows us to conclude that the defendants intended to break the democratic rule of law," Zanin justified, in what many analysts consider an Orwellian twist: the true institutional rupture is imprisoning a former president in a process without guarantees.
The official narrative keeps that Bolsonaro was attempting "to remain in power". However, from the Bolsonarist perspective, a fabricated process to criminalize dissent is denounced, while Lula—with a history of corruption and imprisonment—consolidates his absolute control over a Supreme Court colonized by the Workers' Party.
The scandal has crossed borders. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State for Donald Trump, condemned the decision and pointed directly at Alexandre de Moraes: "The political persecution by the sanctioned human rights violator Alexandre de Moraes continues, as he and other members of Brazil's Supreme Court have unjustly decided to imprison former President Jair Bolsonaro. The United States will respond accordingly to this witch hunt."
