The opening panel of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the largest conservative forum in the world, unanimously approved a resolution to condemn the use of the Brazilian judicial system as a political weapon against former president Jair Bolsonaro.
The event’s management also criticized the ban on the entry of an advisor to US President Donald Trump into the country, following a decision by Federal Supreme Court (STF) Minister Alexandre de Moraes. Before being blocked, the person in charge of matters related to Brazil within the State Department, Darren Beattie, had requested the Court to visit former President Bolsonaro, at the time imprisoned in the 19th Military Police Battalion of the Federal District, but the request was denied.
During the reading of the resolution, Mercedes Schlapp, one of the organizers of the conservative forum, highlighted CPAC’s condemnation of the “continuous use of the so-called lawfare by the president of Brazil, Lula, and by STF minister Alexandre de Moraes against Bolsonaro and the Brazilian people”.
“What we are witnessing is not justice, but rather a tyrannical abuse of judicial power, designed to silence political opposition, stifle freedom of expression and manipulate the upcoming elections in favor of the Lula government,” he said.
Schlapp also said in his inaugural speech that Moraes transformed the Brazilian Judiciary into a political weapon, through the imposition of unfair convictions, censorship orders, blocking of assets and restrictions that, in practice, transformed President Bolsonaro into a political prisoner.
The conservative event, which takes place in Texas until next Saturday (28), will be attended by several relevant figures from the global right. The pre-candidate for the presidency of Brazil, Flávio Bolsonaro, and the former federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro are present at the forum.
