Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), gave five days for the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) to comment on the clarifications provided by former president Jair Bolsonaro in the case of the Hungarian Embassy. After receiving the prosecutor’s opinion, the minister will analyze the case.
Earlier, Bolsonaro’s defense stated that it would be “illogical” to suggest that the former president would request political asylum during the period he stayed at the Hungarian embassy in Brasília last month.
The explanation was sent to the Supreme Court after Moraes gave Bolsonaro 48 hours to explain his stay.
On Monday (25), The New York Times published that the former president stayed at the embassy between February 12th and 14th of this year.
Days earlier, on February 8, Bolsonaro had his passport seized by order of Moraes after undergoing a search and seizure during Operation Tempus Veritatis, which investigates the attempted coup d’état in the country following the results of the 2022 elections.
According to international rules, the embassy area is inviolable by Brazilian authorities. In this way, Bolsonaro would be immune from the possible execution of an arrest warrant.
Bolsonaro is an ally of the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, who attended the former president’s inauguration in 2018. In 2022, Bolsonaro visited Budapest, the Hungarian capital, and was received by Orbán. Furthermore, both exchange constant public praise.
