The Supreme Court of Brazil decide whether to put Bolsonar to court

Judges in the Supreme Court of Brazil discusses whether former President Jiri Balsanar should speak in court for allegedly trying to coup against the current president Luis Inazio Lula to Silva.

The Pentecut Board of the Supreme Court will weigh the evidence presented by the chief prosecutor who accuses Bolsonar of heading the plot to prevent his competitor after the latter won in the 2022 election.

The 70 -year -old Balsanar says he is a victim of a “political persecution” aimed at preventing him from working on the president in 2026.

It is expected that the judges will decide by the end of Wednesday, whether there is enough evidence to go to court.

Bolsonar has already been forbidden to run for a state post by 2030 Because falsely claiming that the Brazilian voting system was vulnerable to fraud, but it announced its intention to fight this ban so that it could run for a second term in 2026.

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 supporters pushed government buildings in the capital, Brazil, in the fact that federal investigators say it was a coup attempt.

The parts of the buildings were defeated and the police detained 1500 people.

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

A federal police investigation and events leading to them were launched.

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

Their report on the 884 pages, which was unintentional in November 2024, claimed that “then President Jir Messiac Bolsonar planned, acted and directly and effectively realized the actions of the criminal coup and eliminated the democratic rule.”

Brazil’s Attorney General Pavel Gonnet went even further in his report published last monthIn which he accused Bolsonar of not just realized, but also in conducting a criminal organization, which, he said, sought to turn Lulu.

According to the Gonet report, the plot allegedly included a plan for Lula’s poisoning and shooting on the dead Alexander de Moras, one of the five judges, who now instructed to decide whether the case should be tried.

Now the Pentecut Board must determine whether there is enough evidence to put Bolsonar and seven more who are accused of the trial.

Bolsonar constantly denied any violations, and on Monday he again claimed that he was innocent.

Speaking over the radio, the ex-president stated that he “did not worry about the allegations” and that he had “good lawyers”.