The prosecutor accuses former President Bolsonaro about the alleged plot of blows

The main prosecutor of Brazil accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of leading an attempted coup after the former leader was defeated by his leftist rival in the 2022 presidential elections.

According to the prosecutor, the alleged plot aimed to prevent Bolsonaro’s successor in office, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, to assume the position and included a plan to poison Lula.

Bolsonaro, 69, denies any irregularity and says he is a victim of a political search for witches.

Now it depends on the Supreme Court of Brazil to decide whether to accept the prosecutor’s charges and put Bolsonaro and another 33 defendants in trial.

In a sign of how Brazil divided it remains two and a half years after the presidential elections fought bitterly, Bolsonaro’s critics celebrated news of the positions, saying that the former president belonged to the prison, while his supporters insisted that he was innocent .

The approach now focuses on the judge of the Alexandre de Moraes Supreme Court, who will have to weigh the merits of the accusations made by the main prosecutor and decide if the case must proceed to the trial stage.

There is no deadline for Mr. Moraes to make his decision, but the legal experts cited in the Brazilian media said they expected him to govern in favor of a trial, which he could begin at the end of this year.

Political analysts say that a potential judgment could have an impact on the presidential elections of 2026.

While Bolsonaro is prohibited from running for a position until 2030 for falsely stating that the Brazilian voting system was vulnerable to fraud, it remains a strong political force.

Many think they could use a potential test as a platform for your agenda.

In his 272 -page report, Attorney General Paulo Gonet said he had concluded that Bolsonaro and the other defendant had formed a criminal group that had tried to instigate a coup against the newly elected government of Lula, an accusation of those named.

The document alleges that Bolsonaro and his vice presidential candidate Walter Braga Netto directed the group.

“Allies with other people, including civilians and military personnel, tried to prevent, in a coordinated manner, the result that the 2022 presidential elections are fulfilled,” reads.

According to the report, the alleged plot included a plan to poison Lula and shoot Alexandre de Moraes, the same judge of the Supreme Court now in charge of deciding if the case should proceed to trial.

The prosecutor’s positions are based on a police investigation on events prior to January 8, 2023, when Bolsonaro supporters broke into government buildings in the capital, Brasilia.

Parts of the buildings were looted and the police arrested 1,500 people.

Bolsonaro was in the United States at that time and has always denied the links with the uproar. But the prosecutor’s report alleges that he began to sow doubts about the Brazilian voting system already in July 2021, which is believed to encourage those who assaulted Congress.

The lawyers who represent the former president said they were “amazed” by the level accusations against their client and insisted that he had never supported any movement destined to dismantle the rule of democratic law of Brazil or the institutions that defend it.

Said that the prosecutor had presented a “fantasy narrative” that would not resist legal scrutiny.