Bolsonaro denies participation in the alleged state coup story

Former Brazilian President Jir Balssonar refused to participate in the alleged conspiracy on the overthrow of the current president Luis Inazio Lula to Silva.

Speaking for the first time in court, Balsanar, who ruled the country from 2019 to 2022, stated that the coup was a “flexible case” and “never had a coup in my government.”

Together with the seven “accomplices”, a 70-year-old guy pursues a trial over the events that led to the storming of state buildings by his supporters on January 8, 2023, a week after Lula’s inauguration.

The former president may face decades of imprisonment if he is convicted. He always denied allegations against him.

On Tuesday, Judge Alyaksandr de Moraz in court of the alleged charge of planning a coup, Balsanar said the charge was “not believed, your highness.”

Saying later, he said, “I have only one thing that can be confirmed by your skill: on my part, on the part of the military commanders, he never talked about the coup. The coup is a flexible thing.”

“Brazil could not survive such an experience. And there was never even the possibility of a coup in my government,” he added.

The Balsanor narrowly lost the presidential election in Lulu in 2022.

After the victory, Lula, Bolsonar, launched false statements that there were deficiencies with electronic voting machines ahead of the election.

The prosecution claimed that Bolsonar’s claims about voter fraud began as early as 2021 as a reason that could be used for doubt in the possible 2022 election.

Responding to the court, Balsanar stated that not the only person who trusts electronic voters and stated that he acted as part of the Constitution rules.

“I have erected many times, I swear. But, in my opinion, I was doing what I needed to do,” he said in court on Tuesday.

Bolsonar is the sixth defendant who has taken the position since the trial in May.

Eight accused are charged with five charges, which include an attempt to determine the coup, participation in the armed criminal organization, attempted violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, deterioration and deterioration in the heritage list.

Most have still denied allegations against them.

Bolsonar, former army captain and supporter of US President Donald Trump, has ruled Brazil from January 2019 to December 2022.

In October 2022, he narrowly lost the presidential electoral departure with the left rival Lula.

Bolsonar never recognized his defeat. Many of his supporters spent weeks that were organized outside the army barracks, trying to convince the military to prevent Lula’s oath as planned on January 1, 2023.

A week after Lula’s inauguration on January 8, 2023, Thousands of Bolsonar’s supporters stormed government buildings In the capital, Brazil is that federal investigators say he was a coup attempt.

At the time, Balsanar was in the US and always denied the riots.

He has already been forbidden to run for public posts by 2030 for falsely claiming that the Brazil’s voting system was vulnerable to fraud, but he stated his intention to fight this ban so that he could work for a second term in 2026.