Moraes, who was presiding over the session, made the gesture shortly after giving the floor to Minister Maria Cláudia Bucchianeri. Before her, minister Carlos Horbach voted against restricting live broadcasts carried out by the president, who is seeking re-election in 2023.
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By 4 votes to 3, it was decided that Bolsonaro is prohibited from holding electoral lives in “exclusive spaces” of the Presidency of the Republic. Understand here some of the arguments used by the Superior Electoral Court to confirm the decision.
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On social media, the president's children tried to associate Moraes' gesture with the topic of the trial.
the councilor Carlos Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) published the video and questionor: “What did Minister Alexandre de Moraes mean by this gesture?”
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the deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP) shared a publication that classifies the episode as an “extremely worrying situation”.
According to a report from Veja, a message circulates via WhatsApp stating that Moraes made a gesture “of beheading Minister Maria Cláudia Bucchianeri who voted against the ban of Bolsonaro doing lives.”
Response from Minister Alexandre de Moraes
To the newspaper Estadão, Moraes said that the gesture had no relation to the trial. See Moraes' statement:
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“It was a joke with an advisor of mine who was in the audience and took a while to tell me some information. She [minister Maria Cláudia] hadn’t even started voting.”
