BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been convicted of attempting a coup to stay in office after losing his reelection bid in 2022.
He is the first former president found guilty of trying to overturn an election in the country with the largest economy in Latin America. Bolsonaro has always denied wrongdoing.
Four of the five justices on the Supreme Court panel voted to convict him Thursday and sentenced him to 27 years and three months in prison. But this doesn’t mean he will go to prison right away.
Here’s what to know about the process against Bolsonaro and what’s coming next:
The charges
Prosecutors charged him with
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