Senator Marcos do Val's account is the strongest testimony yet to support accusations that former president Jair Bolsonaro tried to overturn the result of the October election won narrowly by leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
BRASILIA, Brazil – A Brazilian senator said on Thursday, February 2, that a close ally of former presidenttried to persuade him to join a conspiracy to overturn the far-right leader’s electoral loss last year.
The senator told reporters that Bolsonaro “sat in silence” while Silveira laid out the plot against Justice Alexandre de Moraes, a Supreme Court judge running Brazil’s top electoral authority .Moraes defended in decisions that Bolsonaro blamed for his defeatSilveira was arrested by police on Thursday on a warrant issued by Moraes, who accused him of disobeying court rulings and “complete disrespect and mockery” of the judiciary.
Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the former president’s son, said in a statement that there was never any coup attempt and that his father is a “defender of law and order and has always played within the four lines of the Constitution.” The news magazine Veja, which first reported the alleged conspiracy, later on Thursday released an audio in which do Val says he heard the details of the plot directly from Bolsonaro in the December 9 meeting. The magazine said it saw messages that proved the meeting took place.
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