US EditionBrazil Senate approves bill to cut Bolsonaro's 27-year sentence for coup plot
The bill changes sentence calculations to cut Bolsonaro's 27-year term to about two years and could shorten prison times for over 100 others convicted in the 2023 coup-related riots.
- Brazil's Senate approved a bill to reduce former President Jair Bolsonaro's 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
- The bill could see Bolsonaro serve a little over two years in prison instead of eight years before becoming eligible for a looser regime.
- Though political forces are more evenly balanced in the Senate, it was approved 48-25, with Lula vowing to veto the bill, saying Bolsonaro 'must pay' for his crimes.
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While a law to reduce the sentence of the former Brazilian president has just been approved by the Chamber of Deputies, the current President Lula can veto it, but it can in turn be cancelled by Congress.
The Brazilian parliament has passed a bill reducing the prison sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro, and it now only requires President Lula da Silva to sign it into law.
After the presidential election in 2022, supporters of Jair Bolsonaro stormed the government district. By law, their punishments are now to be reduced. A veto of the president is expected.
The Brazilian Senate approved on Wednesday the bill that seeks to reduce the sentences of former ultra-right president Jair Bolsonaro, sentenced to 27 years in prison, and other participants in the coup plot that took place after the 2022 elections.
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