Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro came one step closer to knowing his fate as a panel of the country’s Supreme Court started voting on Tuesday on whether the ex-leader plotted to overthrow democracy and hang onto power illegally after his 2022 electoral defeat.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is overseeing the case and considered by Bolsonaro supporters a foe, said the far-right politician who governed Brazil between 2019 and 2022 was the leader of a coup plot and of a criminal organization, and voted in favor of convicting him.
