According to the newspaper O Tempo, the order could be issued at any time after De Moraes, who is presiding over the case, issues the final ruling, a stage that exhausts the defense’s appeals against the 27-year and three-month prison sentence for attempted coup.

The final ruling orders the start of the sentence’s execution.

Leaders of the conservative Liberal Party believe that the arrest could strengthen Bolsonaro’s political capital and increase pressure for a vote on amnesty for the coup plotters in the Chamber of Deputies.

This strategy involves pressuring the Speaker of the Lower House, Hugo Motta, to put to a vote the opinion, not yet presented, of rapporteur Paulinho da Força. The party already knows it will adopt the guidelines of proportionality of sentences, and not the broad, general, and unrestricted amnesty sought by the opposition.

The strategy to modify the report is to approve an amendment (a suggested modification to the text) that expands the guidelines of proportionality of punishments and restores the original spirit of the pardon contained in the bill, initially presented by Representative Marcelo Crivella.

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