Former federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, indicted last Thursday, said he would apply for a “stateless” passport to stay in the United States. He lost his parliamentary mandate for exceeding the absence limit.
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According to Eduardo Bolsonaro, “there is an order for Brazilian embassies” not to issue him a passport. “If this news is confirmed,” said the former MP, he will find himself without a Brazilian passport.
— As soon as I lose my mandate, within 30 or 60 days, I must return my diplomatic passport. I will be without a Brazilian passport. But I can already tell you that I am vaccinated. This wouldn’t stop me from doing further international travel as I have other means of doing so or perhaps even seeking a stateless passport. Let’s see how it goes, said Eduardo Bolsonaro on the “SBT News” channel.
According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), stateless people are people whose nationality is not recognized by any country.
“Statelessness occurs for several reasons, such as discrimination against minorities in national legislation, failure to recognize all residents of the country as citizens when that country becomes independent (state secession), and conflicts of laws between countries,” the agency explains.
The mandate of Eduardo Bolsonaro was declared vacant by an administrative act of the Chamber, based on article 55 of the Constitution, due to the accumulation of absences from deliberative sessions. The decision specifies that the deputy lost his position “for not having attended, during the current legislative session, a third of the deliberative sessions of the Chamber of Deputies”, which authorizes automatic dismissal due to an administrative act.
It is an internal sanction of the Legislature, aimed at the functional conduct of the deputy, which does not imply, in itself, the suspension or loss of political rights. Thus, Eduardo preserves his electability and, in theory, can run in future elections, provided there are no other beliefs or frameworks that make him ineligible.
The son of former President Jair Bolsonaro has been abroad for months and is under investigation by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) for trying to coerce the judiciary and issuing sanctions in the United States against Brazilian authorities, including ministers of the Court.
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