The Brazilian Attorney General filed charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday for trying a coup d'etat to remain in office after his 2022 electoral defeat.
Attorney General Paulo Gonet alleges that Bolsonaro and another 33 participated in a plan to remain in power despite losing to the current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Last November, the Federal Police presented an 884 pages report with Gonet detailing the scheme. They claim that it involved systematically sowing the distrust of the electoral system among the population, writing a decree to give the plot a sheet of legality, pressing the main military brasss to accompany the plan and incite a mutiny in the capital.
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The Supreme Court will analyze the charges and, if accepted, Bolsonaro will be tried.
The extreme right leader denies irregularities. “I have no concerns about the accusations, zero,” Bolsonaro told journalists earlier during a visit to the Senate in Brasilia.
“Have you seen the decree of the blows, by chance? You haven't done it. I didn't do it either, ”he added.
A Bolsonaro lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
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