The Trial Chamber of the Brazilian Supreme Court sentenced the former President Jairo Bolsonar for 27 years and three months in prison for planning the state attack to remain in power after the election of 2022. Years. The five-member judge judge of the Supreme Court sentenced the verdict only for a few hours after declaring the former leader guilty, the BBC reports.
They found that he was guilty of leading the conspiracy aimed at maintaining himself in power after defeat in the elections in 2022. year from his left-wing Rival Lucio Inacke Lula da Silve.
Four of the five judges, the Council stated that it was guilty while one judge voted that Bolsono be released from the accusation. Bolsonar’s lawyers called the verdict “absurdly exaggerated” and said they would invest a “appropriate appeal”, including internationally.
The Council of the Supreme Court also banned him to run for a public office until 2033. years. Bolsono, who has been determined by house detention as it was considered that there was a risk of escaping, did not personally attend the final phase of his trial.
He said earlier that the aim of the trial was to be prevented from running in 2026 presidential elections. Years, although he was already prohibited by public functions on separate indictments. He also called the trial “Hunting on Witch.” Those words also used US President Donald Trump, who introduced customs from 50 percent on Brazilian goods, saying it was a retaliation for Bolsonar trial.
Reacting to the declaration of bolsonar guilty, Trump said it was “very surprising” and compared it with his own experience. “It looks much like what they tried to do with me. But they failed at all,” Trump said.
US Secretary of State Marko Rubio said that the Brazilian Supreme Court “unfairly ruled to close the former president of Jairo Bolsonara” and threatened the “adequate response to the witchcraft hunting.”
That quickly reacted by Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was written that “threats as the US Director of the United States Marko Rubio in a statement attacked by the recorded facts and convincing evidence will not intimidate our democracy.”
Extremely right politician Bolsoono who ruled Brazil between 2019. and 2022, the first former Brazilian president was convicted of an attempted state strike.
(Type / Source: FENA / PHOTO: Archive / Fena)
