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Brasilia, May 28 (Prensa Latina) The Workers' Party (PT) filed before the Ethics Council of the Chamber of Deputies a request for impeachment against the licensed legislator Eduardo Bolsonaro for acting today from the United States against Brazilian democratic institutions.

According to the text of the disqualification request, signed by the leader of the PT in the lower house, Lindbergh Farias, and the interim president of the political organization, Humberto Costa, the deputy acts systematically on U.S. territory with the objective of promoting institutional attacks against the Supreme Court.

He also pressures the jurisdiction of that superior court and manages international sanctions against national authorities.

The content highlights that Eduardo Bolsonaro, publicly and repeatedly, declared that “he will only return to Brazil when Minister Alexandre de Moraes (of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) is sanctioned by the United States”.

The statement was supported by meetings with U.S. legislators such as Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Cory Mills, seeking to apply the Magnitsky Act, a foreign policy rule used to sanction alleged human rights violators.

For the PT, these actions constitute a “serious breach of parliamentary decorum”, as they imply abuse of representative functions and conspiracy with foreign actors against the Brazilian State.

In addition, the party accuses the parliamentarian removed from his mandate of financing part of his actions through funds from an online donation campaign promoted by his father, former president Jair Bolsonaro, whose stated objective was another.

The document stresses that the deputy's actions “directly affect the STF and national sovereignty”, which violates the ethical core of the legislative function.

Now, the Ethics Council must decide whether or not to accept the process.

If it admits it, it initiates another one that may culminate in a vote in the plenary of the lower house, in which a qualified majority (2/3 of the votes) is required for impeachment.

At the same time, the Supreme Court, at the request of the Attorney General's Office, opened an investigation into Eduardo Bolsonaro and also requested that the Federal Police take a statement from his father, on suspicion that he is financing his son's activities in the United States, where he has been living since he left office in March.

Farias also filed a criminal complaint with the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office against the congressman, accusing him of coercion in the course of proceedings and requested his imprisonment for “treason and obstruction of justice”.

To date, there has not been a previous case of cassation of a deputy for “international actions against national institutions”, which would be a new legal precedent.