Overview

• Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the PGR to respond within five days to a request for Eduardo Bolsonaro’s preventive detention and for suspension of pay and parliamentary allowances filed by Deputies Lindbergh Farias and Talíria Petrone.
• The PGR has already charged Eduardo Bolsonaro and blogger Paulo Figueiredo with coercion in the course of a process, and the STF notified the congressman by public notice with 15 days to submit a preliminary defense.
• Jair Bolsonaro’s lawyers asked Moraes to authorize telephone contact and to revoke the ex-president’s house arrest and related restrictions, arguing the communication ban hinders his defense and that he has not been charged in the inquiry.
• Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet filed an opinion stating that exercising a parliamentary mandate ordinarily requires physical presence in sessions, a position that bears on Eduardo Bolsonaro’s extended stay in the United States.
• Moraes requested that Jair Bolsonaro’s defense state whether he intends to grant interviews sought by Folha de S.Paulo, Veja and the Café com Ferri podcast, setting a five-day deadline for their reply.