Bolsonaro presented plan to reverse election after 2022 loss: Court records
Al Jazeera
Top military leaders reported plan to police, said they would arrest Bolsonaro if he moved forward, documents show.
Top military leaders in Brazil have alleged that former President Jair Bolsonaro presented them with a plan to reverse the results of the 2022 presidential election, according to court documents.
The filings, released on Friday, offer some of the first evidence that Bolsonaro was directly involved in an effort to subvert the vote, which he narrowly lost to left-wing candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The documents contain testimony from the former commanders of the country’s army and air force, both of whom said they refused to accept the right-wing president’s plan.
Instead, they alleged they warned Bolsonaro that any attempt to overturn the election results could lead to his arrest.
The allegations emerge as part of several probes Bolsonaro faces before Brazil’s Supreme Court, including an investigation that seeks to determine his involvement in a 2023 attack on key government buildings, shortly after Lula’s inauguration.
