Brazil’s Supreme Court said on March 26 that it will move forward with a criminal trial against former President Jair Bolsonaro and seven of his top allies over an alleged attempt to overthrow the country’s democratic order following the 2022 election.
In a unanimous vote announced on March 26, a panel of Supreme Court justices accepted charges brought by the Prosecutor General’s Office. The charges accuse the former president and members of what investigators call the “Nucleus 1” group of orchestrating a failed coup plot to keep Bolsonaro in power after his defeat to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
