"Justice Carmen Lucia Antunes Rocha ruled on Thursday that Bolsonaro a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning three of the five judges involved in the trial had found Brazil's former leader guilty. Delivering her decisive vote, Rocha denounced what she called an attempt to sow the malignant seed of anti-democracy in Brazil but celebrated how the country's institutions had survived and were fighting back."
"Jair Bolsonaro was leader of this criminal structure, Moraes said during a five-hour address in which he offered a comprehensive account of the slow-burn conspiracy against Brazilian democracy. The victim is the Brazilian state, said Moraes, claiming the plot had unfolded between July 2021 and January 2023, when Bolsonaro supporters rampaged through Brasilia after the election's leftwing winner, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, took power."
Brazil's supreme court judges voted to convict former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, exposing him to a decades-long sentence. Justice Carmen Lucia Antunes Rocha found Bolsonaro guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, denounced anti-democratic efforts, and praised institutional resilience. Alexandre de Moraes and Flavio Dino declared Bolsonaro the leader of a criminal organisation that sought to restore dictatorship, saying the plot unfolded between July 2021 and January 2023 and culminated in supporters rampaging through Brasilia after Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took power. Luiz Fux dissented, citing lack of proof of Bolsonaro's awareness or involvement in alleged assassination plots or a coup.
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