A majority of Brazil’s electoral court voted to bar Jair Bolsonaro from public office for eight years in the first major legal rebuke of the former president, whose efforts to sow doubt about the 2022 election have now put his political future at risk.
Four of the court’s seven judges said that the right-wing leader abused his presidential powers by calling a meeting of foreign ambassadors to make baseless claims about Brazil’s voting system months before last October’s election.
Judge Carmen Lucia delivered the fourth vote minutes after the trial resumed Friday afternoon.
