Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro among 37 people facing charges of attempting coup | World News– news.sky.com
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Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro is among more than 30 people facing charges of allegedly attempting a coup after his electoral defeat in 2022.
Federal police have delivered the results of their investigation to the country’s supreme court, which must decide whether to refer them to prosecutor-general Paulo Gonet to bring formal charges.
The former right-wing president has denied claims he tried to stay in office after his narrow defeat to rival, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – the leftist politician who won with 50.9% of the vote.
Mr Bolsonaro posted on X that investigators and the supreme court judge overseeing the case had been “creative” and done “everything the law does not say”.
