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Legal misfortunes hang on the former president, who has called for several demonstrations to support him in recent months.
Faced with a serious legal danger with potentially years of incarceration on an alleged couplios judged by the country’s Supreme Court, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro attended a demonstration of his supporters.
About 2,000 people attended the rally on Sunday in Sao Paolo.
On Saturday evening, the ex-far-right leader told his disciples on the YouTube channel of the Brasil of Auriverde that “Brazil needs all of us. It is for freedom, for justice ”. He urged supporters to walk on Sunday in avenue Paulista de Sao Paulo.
“It is a call for us to show force … This massive presence will give us courage,” he said.
In February, Bolsonaro, 70, who led the country from 2019 to 2022, was accused of five provident counts of staying in power and overthrowing the electoral result of 2022, that the current president, the Luiz of the left Luiz Lula Da Silva, won. Thirty-three closest allies in Bolsonaro were also charged.
Earlier this month, Bolsonaro testified For the first time before the country’s supreme court, denying any involvement in the alleged coup.
The headquarters of the Supreme Court in Brasilia was one of the targets of a riot crowd known as “Bolsonaristas” – which Buildings of the government searched in January 2023 As they urged the soldiers to oust president Lula, an insurrection attempt that spoke of supporters of Bolsonaro Ally United President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021.
The police referred to the demonstration as an uprising and an attempt to force the military intervention and to deposit Lula.
Bolsonaro says that the various cases against him are politically motivated, aimed at preventing him from making a return during the 2026 elections.
The Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court judged last year that, due to an abuse of Bolsonaro’s political power and its baseless affirmations concerning the country’s electronic voting system, it would be prohibited to hold its functions until 2030.
“An abominable thing”
Earlier this month, during Bolsonaro’s first testimony to the Supreme Court, the former president denied that there was an attempted coup.
“There has never been a discussion on a coup. An state is an abominable thing,” said Bolsonaro.
“Brazil could not go through an experience like this. And there was never any possibility of a coup in my government. ”
Bolsonaro was abroad in Florida in the United States at the time of this last effort to keep it in power after planning of the alleged coup has been collapsed. But his opponents accused him of fomenting the riots.
At the same time, Brazilian police asked that Bolsonaro be accused separately from illegal espionage while the president.
According to legal experts, the part of the conspiracy procedure is expected in the second half. If it is convicted, Bolsonaro could incur up to 12 years in prison.
During his legal problems, the former president called for several demonstrations, but his appearances to them have decreased in recent months, as is the crowd.
According to estimates from the University of Sao Paulo, around 45,000 people participated in the last step on Paulista avenue in April, almost four times less than in February.
The governor of Sao Paulo Tarcisio de Freitas, former Minister of Bolsonaro, is one of the main candidates to represent the conservatives of the presidential election of 2026.
