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The responsibility for acts harmful to the democratic order falls upon a criminal organization led by Jair Messias Bolsonaro, based on an authoritarian project of power,
according to the charging document, which used the ex-president's full name
The charges show Brazil's institutions are robust, independent and agile,
Machado said
There’s a 99 per cent chance that the supreme court will accept the charges,
said Vera Chemim, a constitutional lawyer in Sao Paulo
There are polls saying he would be competitive in the 2026 elections against Lula, one of them published today,
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If they prove that they did not attempt a coup, and if they prove that they did not attempt to kill the president, the vice president and the president of the Supreme Electoral Court, they will be free,
Lula said
The playbook is familiar: they fabricate vague accusations, claim to be concerned about democracy or sovereignty, and persecute opponents, silence dissenting voices and concentrate power,
Bolsonaro saidThe members of the criminal organization structured a plan at the presidential palace to attack institutions, aiming to bring down the system of the powers and the democratic order, which received the sinister name of 'Green and Yellow Dagger,'
Gonet wrote in a 272-page indictmentEvery authoritarian regime, in its lust for power, needs to manufacture internal enemies to justify persecution, censorship and arbitrary arrests,
Bolsonaro saidI have no concerns about the accusations, zero,
Bolsonaro told journalists earlier on Tuesday during a visit to the Senate in BrasiliaBoth accepted, stimulated, and performed acts that are described in our criminal legislation as attacking the existence and the Independence of (the branches) of power and of the democratic rule,
Gonet wrote in his reportHave you seen the coup decree, by any chance? You haven't. Neither have I,
he added