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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent?

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From: sea_urchin9/11/2025 6:51:27 PM
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Brazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro ?has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for plotting a military coup? and seeking to “annihilate” the South American country’s democracy.

theguardian.com

Justices Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha and Cristiano Zanin ruled on ?Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning four of the five judges involved in the trial had found Brazil’s former leader guilty.

Announcing Bolsonaro’s sentence for crimes including coup d’etat and violently attempting to abolish Brazil’s democracy on Thursday night, the supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes said: “[He tried to] annihilate the essential pillars of the democratic rule-of-law state ... ?the greatest consequence ?[of which] ... would have been the return of dictatorship to Brazil?.”

Delivering her decisive vote, Rocha denounced what she called an attempt to “sow the malignant seed of anti-democracy” in Brazil – but celebrated how the country’s institutions had survived and were fighting back.

“Brazilian democracy was not shaken,” Rocha told a court in the capital, Brasília, warning of the spread of “the virus of authoritarianism”.

On Tuesday two other judges, Moraes and Flávio Dino, also declared the 70-year-old politician guilty of leading what the former called “a criminal organisation” that had sought to plunge the South American country back into dictatorship.

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