Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday former President Jair Bolsonaro will have to stand trial for his involvement in a 2022 coup attempt after losing the presidential election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. A federal police report issued last November accuses Bolsonaro of overseeing a plan to poison his rival, then-President-elect Lula, as well as to annul election results, dissolve courts and install a military dictatorship. Bolsonaro will face five counts related to the sweeping coup plot, which could result in decades of prison time.
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