The Supreme Court in Brazil to decide whether to put Bolsonaro on court

Brazilian court judges are discussing whether former President Jair Bolsonaro should be a court of claim to be trying to make a coup against current President Louis Inasio Lula da Silva.

A five -member group of the Supreme Court will weigh the evidence presented by the Prosecutor General who accuses Bolsonaro of the plot management to prevent his rival Lula from taking office after winning the election in 2022.

The 70 -year -old Bolsonaro says he is a victim of a “political persecution” aimed at preventing him from running for President again in 2026.

The judges are expected to decide before the end of Wednesday whether there is sufficient evidence so that the case can go to court.

Bolsonaro is now prohibited from running for public office by 2030. It is falsely claimed that the Brazil vote system is vulnerable to fraud, but he announced his intention to fight this ban so that he could run for a second term in 2026.

Bolsonaro, a former captain of the army and US President Donald Trump, has run Brazil from January 2019 to December 2022.

He narrowly lost the leakage of the presidential election in October 2022 to his left rival Lula.

Bolsonaro never publicly acknowledges his defeat. Many of his supporters spent weeks off the army barracks in an attempt to persuade the military from preventing Lula from sworn as a president, as scheduled on January 1, 2023.

A week after the Lula’s office, on January 8, 2023, thousands of supporters of Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in the capital, Brazil, in what federal investigators say it is an attempt to coup.

Parts of the buildings were destroyed and police arrested 1,500 people.

Bolsonaro was in the United States at that time and always denied any relationship with the rebels.

A federal police investigation of the riots and events leading to them has launched.

Investigators said they had found evidence that there was a “criminal organization” that “acted in a coordinated manner” to support then President Bolsonaro in power.

Their 884 -page report, which was printed in November 2024, claims that “then President Jair Messias Bolsonaro is planning, acting and directly aware of the actions of a criminal organization, which aims to begin a coup and eliminate the democratic law of law.

Brazil General Prosecutor, Paulo Gennet, went even more to his report published last monthIn which he accused Bolsonaro of being not only aware, but in the leadership of the criminal organization, which he believes seeks to take down the pipe.

According to a Gonet report, the alleged plot includes a plan for the reduction of a pipe and shooting of the dead Alexander de Moraes, one of the five Supreme Court judges, who is now charged to decide whether the case should proceed to a lawsuit.

The five -member panel will now need to determine if there is sufficient evidence to place Bolsonaro and seven others accused of being his co -employment.

Bolsonaro denied any misconduct all the time and on Monday again maintained that he was innocent.

Speaking on a radio podcast, the former president said that he “is not worried at all about the accusations” and that there are “good lawyers” who represent him.