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After a surprising ruling in favor of former President Jair Bolsonaro by Supreme Court Minister Luis Fux today, one vote is still needed for a conviction. Our correspondent Brian Mier has more. teleSUR
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00:00After a surprising ruling in favor of former President Jair Bolsonaro by Supreme Court
00:05Minister Luis Fux this Wednesday, one vote is still needed for a conviction.
00:10Our correspondent, Ramir, has more.
00:13Day two of Brazil's Supreme Court ruling against former President Jair Bolsonaro and seven
00:20of his cronies for allegedly plotting a military coup has come to a close.
00:24Today was marked by a one-day-long decision issued by Minister Luis Fux, a Dilma Rousseff appointee
00:34in 2011, who later turned on her and ruled in favor of her impeachment in 2016.
00:42In contrast to the guilty verdicts issued by Minister Alexandre Gimoraes and Flavio Dino yesterday,
00:49Fux claimed that the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction to rule on this case because
00:56the date that the investigation started was after most of the defendants had left political
01:02office, meaning that they don't have political immunity which would necessitate their case
01:08from going directly to the Supreme Court.
01:10He argued that the case should be pushed back to the lower courts.
01:13In direct contrast to nearly a thousand rulings he's already made on people who were arrested
01:20for participating in the Capitol riots on January 8, 2023, he cited in favor of guilty verdicts
01:28for nearly a thousand people.
01:30So today he contradicted that and read off a laundry list of complaints made by the U.S.
01:36government couched in legal language citing American law professors about freedom of speech
01:42and things like that.
01:43And what's the end result?
01:45The Bolsonaro supporters are now going to have hundreds of video clips that they can
01:49use in Instagram videos, TikTok videos to try and pressure the public and pressure Congress
01:56for an amnesty bill to declare everyone innocent and free of charge.
02:01This also opens up space, according to a legal scholar, Pedro Serrano, for some time in the
02:07near future for them to be able to restart the case and try and get an annulment based on
02:13the arguments presented by Fuchs today.
02:15So tomorrow is the third day.
02:18There's going to be two people voting, Carmen Lucia and Cristiano Zanin.
02:23All they need is one more vote for a guilty verdict for the defendant.
02:26But Fuchs' behavior today is going to create instability in the near future in Brazil.
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