Brazil attorney general has charges against former President Bolsonaro on the alleged coup plan

The Brazilian Attorney General presented charges against the former president on Tuesday Jair Bolsonaro for trying a coup d’etat to remain in office after its electoral defeat of 2022.

Attorney General Paulo Gonet alleges that Bolsonaro and another 33 participated in the plan to remain in power despite losing to the current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The former president of Brazil, Bolsonaro and the assistants accused for alleged attempted 2022 coup d’etat

Last November, the Federal Police presented an 884 pages report with Gonet detailing the scheme. They claim that it involved systematically sowing the distrust of the electoral system among the population, writing a decree to give the plot a sheet of legality, pressing the main military brasss to accompany the plan and incite a mutiny in the capital.

The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro arrives at a lunch with senators of his support base, in the National Congress building in Brasilia, Brazil, on Tuesday, February 18, 2025. (Photo/Eraldo Peres)

He Supreme Court It will analyze the charges and, if accepted, Bolsonaro will be judged.

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The extreme right leader denies irregularities. “I have no concerns about the accusations, zero,” Bolsonaro told journalists earlier during a visit to the Senate in Brasilia.

“Have you seen the decree of the blows, by chance? You have not done it. I did not,” he added.

A Bolsonaro lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comments.