Former Brazilian president, Jia Bolsonaro, was charged on Tuesday with overseeing a vast plan that came to power after losing the 2022 election. Selected.
The charges laid out in the 272-page indictment suggested that Brazil was in fact surprisingly close to returning to a military dictatorship towards modern democracy of nearly 40 years.
Brazil’s Attorney General Paulo Gonette Blanco has indicted Bolsonaro and 33 other people, including former spy chief, defense minister and national security adviser, and blamed them for a string of crimes against Brazilian democracy. did. The charges essentially adopted recommendations from Brazilian federal police in November.
The case moves ahead of the Brazilian Supreme Court. This decides whether to order Mr. Bolsonaro’s arrest and whether he will be brought to trial. According to the charges, if convicted, he could face 12-40 years in prison, but political analysts expect his sentence to be shorter.
In an interview last month, Bolsonaro denied accusations of planning a coup, saying he questioned the legally flawed electoral system and sought ways to improve the constitution’s suspicious outcomes and what he saw. Ta. His lawyer did not immediately comment Tuesday.
The accusations have been distrustful of Bolsonaro’s referendum system, a tense election that Bolsonaro doesn’t fully accept, and an invasion of Brazil’s Hall of Power by his supporters. This is the latest chapter. And the famous investigation that since December, he left his running mate at Bolsonaro’s prison.
Now, Brazilians may witness a televised Supreme Court trial that could have made Bolsonaro the third president in the last eight years to send him to prison.
It would provide a prominent contrast to the US. Bolsonaro and President Trump – political allies that have long been reflecting each other are both charged with pushing for elections to be overturned. But while Trump’s case was dropped when he returned to power, Bolsonaro is probably at his weakest political point.
Brazilian election courts have already ruled that Bolsonaro is not eligible to run for Brazil’s presidential election next year. The Attorney General is weighing two other criminal cases against him. And the Supreme Court judge is intended to oversee his coup.
The US Supreme Court held that Trump was not significantly immune from prosecuting his actions as president, but the Brazilian Supreme Court acted proactively against Bolsonaro and his right-wing movement.
The court oversaw the investigation, ordered an arrest, censored many of Bolsonaro’s supporters on social media, arguing that the anti-democratic actions of his movement require extraordinary response. Right now, 11 High Court Justice was able to determine the fate of Mr. Bolsonaro.
“In the Republic, everything can be held liable,” writes Gonet Branco in his 17-page introduction accompanying the indictment. “The President of the Republic cannot escape this rule.”
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Ju Faddul contributed a report from Sao Paulo.
