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Bolsonaro laid out plan for Brazil coup after defeat by Lula, ex-commanders say
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/bolsonaro-brazil-coup-lula-testimony
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Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro presented top military officials with a plan to carry out a coup d’état after his defeat in the October 2022 election, two former commanders have told the police, according to newly released judicial documents.
Ahead of the election, Bolsonaro repeatedly cast doubt on the reliability of Brazil’s electoral system and never formally conceded to Lula, but he has always denied that he plotted a coup.
“If the commander [Freire Gomes] had agreed, possibly, a coup d’etat attempt would have taken place,” the federal police document quotes Baptista Jr as saying.
Bolsonaro never signed a draft decree that would have established a state of siege, but eight days after Lula’s inauguration on 1 January 2023 thousand of his supporters stormed the capital Brasília in an attempt to unseat the new government.
Freire Gomes and Baptista Júnior were questioned by police in recent weeks as part of an investigation into an alleged conspiracy to discredit Brazil’s electoral system and stage a military coup with the objective of keeping Bolsonaro in power.
The generals’ statements suggest the investigation closing in on Bolsonaro, who has separately been banned from running for political office until 2030 over his spread of disinformation during the 2022 election campaign.
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