Source: International Business Times
Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro will stand trial on charges of masterminding an attempted coup d'etat AFP With far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro headed for trial on coup charges, Brazilians are starting to contemplate a future without the polarizing populist in the picture. The 70-year-old risks a prison sentence of 40 years and political banishment if found guilty of seeking to wrest power from Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after divisive elections the leftist won by a whisker. With 79-year-old Lula's future also uncertain, is this the end of a political era?"There is a concrete possibility that Bolsonaro will go to prison and in that sense his political future ends there," Daniela Campello, a political science professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a renowned think tank, told AFP.
