Bolsonaro is scheduled to face trial before the country’s electoral court Thursday on charges of abusing power. If convicted, the 68-year-old former leader could be barred from running for public office for eight years.
, battling criminal indictments on charges of mishandling classified materials and falsifying business records, is running to reclaim the White House.But in Brazil, Bolsonaro allies consider it only a matter of time before Bolsonaro is barred from trying for his own second term. He’s facing more than a dozen other investigations, some of them criminal, that could put him behind bars.
But Bolsonaro nonetheless sounded defiant Wednesday afternoon. Speaking to reporters in Brasília, he challenged characterizations of Jan. 8 as an insurrection even as he tried to distance himself from the event. Gustavo Guedes, an electoral attorney who in 2017 defended center-right former president Michel Temer before the court against allegations of abuse of power, said the evidence against Bolsonaro
right. He won 58 million votes in October, just short of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s 60 million in the closest presidential vote of Brazil’s 40-year-old democracy.No politician has shown the same capacity to energize the country’s conservatives, a base that had long been rudderless without a central leader.
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