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Tom Phillips in Brasília

Jail for Bolsonaro by no means signals the end of his political movement

A crowd of people shout slogans as they hold up posters reading 'SOS Trump, Bolsonaro free'
Bolsonaro supporters protest in favour of the former president in São Paulo as his trial reaches its conclusion Photograph: Amanda Perobelli/Reuters

Four years have passed since Jair Bolsonaro laid out three possible denouements for his extraordinary political career, during which the oft-ridiculed fringe politician rose to become one of leading lights of the global populist right alongside Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump.

“Going to jail, being killed or victory,” predicted Brazil’s then president as he grappled with a deluge of political crises in August 2021.

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