On a stage on the Copacabana beach, pictures of US President Donald Trump with a raised Faust after the attempted murder attack on him could be seen during the US presidential campaign last summer. Bolsonaro, who was often known as the “tropical trump”, had told the US newspaper “Wall Street Journal” in November that he hoped Trump would put pressure on the Brazilian judiciary in relation to his ban on office.
Bolsonaro lost the presidential election in October 2022 against his left -wing rival Luiz Inácio da Silva. Shortly after Lula took office in January 2023, Bolsonaro supporters stormed the congress, the president’s office and the Supreme Court in Brasília, where they were causing serious devastation for hours-a procedure that was reminiscent of the storm of Trump supporters on the US capital in Washington in January 2021 according to Trump’s election defeat.
A declared request from the Pro Bolsonaro demonstration on Sunday was an amnesty for hundreds of supporters of the ex-president, which were previously sentenced to the congress for the storm.
There are several charges against Bolsonaro. The Supreme Court in Brazil wants to decide on March 25 on the initiation of a trial against him for accusation of a coup attempt against Lula. The formation of a “armed criminal organization”, which is said to have developed a plan to murder Lula, whose deputy and a judge at the Supreme Court, is also one of the five charges. Another indictment point is “attempt to abolish the democratic constitutional state”.
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