Overview
- The livestream that aired Tuesday showed Paulo Figueiredo calling Jair Bolsonaro’s 2014 comment about Maria do Rosário “genial” and mocking Jandira Feghali’s reports of rape threats.
- Deputies Maria do Rosário and Jandira Feghali publicly condemned Figueiredo’s remarks and announced they will take legal measures, arguing the comments encourage sexual violence against women.
- Figueiredo is an online ally of the Bolsonaro family who has worked on communications for Flávio Bolsonaro’s pre-campaign and with Eduardo Bolsonaro since February 2025, according to reporting.
- The episode revived legal context from 2014 when Bolsonaro was ordered by the Superior Tribunal de Justiça to pay moral damages and a separate criminal inquiry at the STF was archived in 2024 due to prescription.
- Figueiredo is already under investigation at the Supreme Federal Court over alleged links to the 2022 post-election efforts and Justice Alexandre de Moraes has faced obstacles notifying him because he lives in the United States.