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The Supreme Court will rule on the fate of the former president in the event that the divided nation could lead to a long prison sentence.
The Supreme Court of Brazil said that it would make a verdict and a penalty in the coupment of the coup d’etat of former President Jair Bolsonaro at the beginning of next month, in a case This polarized the country and attracted to the ally of the former leader, US President Donald Trump.
The court announced on Friday that the panel of five justice supervising the procedure would make decisions on the five counts between September 2 and 12. A conviction for a coup leads to a sentence of up to 12 years.
Bolsonaro, under the resistance of houses since August 4is accused of orchestrating a plot to hang on to power after losing the 2022 presidential election to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. He denies allegations.
Prosecutors allege that Bolsonaro led a criminal organization that sought to cancel the results of the elections.
The case includes accusations that the plot involved killing Lula and the Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes, who presides over the trial. They presented messages, handwritten notes and other documents that they say to document the plot.
Defense lawyers counter that no coup attempt has been made and that Bolsonaro allowed the presidential transfer to take place, undergoing the affirmations that he tried to block it.
The five accusations against Bolsonaro include attempted coup, participation in an armed criminal organization, the attempted violence of the democratic order and two accusations linked to the destruction of state property.
Two separate five justice panels operate before the Superior Court of Brazil. Moraes judge, a frequent target of Bolsonaro supporters, is on the panel when hearing the case. Although Bolsonaro appointed two judges at his presidency 2019-2022, the two serve in the other panel.
In addition, the right -wing Brazilian legislator Eduardo Bolsonaro said on Friday that he had met the US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this week in the context of his campaign to obtain sanctions against the officials of his father, Bolsonaro.
INa Post on X, Bolsonaro said that the meeting took place on Wednesday, the same day, Bessent was expecting interviews with the Brazilian finance minister Fernando Haddad.
Haddad told journalists earlier in the week that the US Treasury had canceled his meeting without offering a new date.
The youngest Bolsonaro made the voice in the defense of his father and called for sanctions on his own country after the alleged attempted coup of his father.
The headquarters of the Supreme Court in Brasilia was one of the targets of a host of riots of supporters known as “Bolsonaristas”, which Buildings of the government searched in January 2023 While urging the soldiers to drop Lula, an insurrection attempt that spoke of Trump supporters on January 6, 2021.
The riots also caused comparisons to the military coup of Brazil in 1964, a dark era that Bolsonaro openly rented.
The trial captivated the divided public of Brazil. Tensions have deepened when Trump linked a 50% price on Brazilian imports To the legal battle of his ally, qualifying the procedure of “witch hunt” and describing Bolsonaro as an “honest man” in the face of “political execution”.
The Trump administration also sanctioned Moraes judge and imposed new commercial restrictions in Brazil, a decision widely criticized in the country as an attack on national sovereignty.
A recent DataFolha survey has revealed that more than half of Brazilians support the decision to place Bolsonaro under house arrest, while 53% reject the idea that he is politically persecuted.
