Bolssonaro denies involvement in a possible coup on land

Former Brazilian President Jer Bolsonaro has denied his involvement in a possible land to overthrow the country’s current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Speaking for the first time in court, Bolsonaro, who ruled the country between 2019 and 2022, said the coup was a “controversial thing” and “never even the possibility of a coup.”

Along with seven “co -dependents”, the 70 -year -old man is entitled to events that led his supporters on January 8, 2023, a week after Lula’s inauguration, led to the government of the government.

The former president could face decades in prison if he is convicted. He has always denied accusations to him.

Judge Alexander De Moraes was questioned on Tuesday for a possible accusation for the coup planning, Bolsonaro said the accusation was “not your excellency”.

Speaking later, he said, “I have only one thing that confirms your excellence: on my part, military commanders have never talked about the coup. The coup is a controversial thing.”

“Brazil couldn’t go through such an experience. And in my government, I never even had a chance,” he added.

Bolsonaro lost narrowly to the presidential election to Lula in 2022.

After Lula’s victory, Bolsonaro made false allegations that there had been mistakes with electronic voting machines in preparation for the elections.

The prosecutor’s office stated that Bolsonaro’s demands for voter fraud began as early as 2021 as a pretext to be used to question a possible defeat in 2022 elections.

In response, Bolsonaro said he was not the only person who did not trust electronic voter machines and said he had acted in the Constitution’s rules.

“Many times I raised, I swear. But I think I did what I had to do,” he told the court on Tuesday.

Bolsonaro is the sixth defendant who has been in a position since the start of the trial in May.

Eight defendants are accused of five charges of attempts to take a coup, involvement in an armed criminal organization, attempt to abolish the law of violent democratic power, exacerbated damage and deterioration of the inheritance listed.

Most have so far denied charges against them.

Bolsonaro, former army captain and fan of US President Donald Trump, led Brazil from January 2019 to December 2022.

He lost narrowly in the presidential election departure in October 2022 for his left rival Lula.

Bolsonaro never publicly recognized his defeat. Many of his supporters spent the week off the campsite outside the army barracks, trying to convince the military forces not to allow Lula to be sworn as president as expected on January 1, 2023.

A week after Lula’s inauguration, January 8, 2023, Thousands of Bolsonaro supporters of stormy government buildings In the capital, Brazil, which federal investigators say was a coup attempt.

Bolsonaro was at the time in the United States and has always denied any links to the rebels.

He is already denied public position until 2030 of the false claim that the Brazilian voting system is vulnerable to fraud, but he has announced his intention to fight this ban so he can run for the second term in 2026.