Brazilian magazine releases audio of senator claiming then-president Jair Bolsonaro sought help in a plot to annul October elections that Lula won and keep himself in power
Protesters, supporters of Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, storm National Congress building in capital Brasilia on January 8, 2023.
"'I annul the election, Lula isn't sworn in, I stay in the presidency and arrest Alexandre de Moraes because of his comments,'" do Val quotes Bolsonaro as saying.released the audio in response to denials the senator issued following the magazine's report on Thursday morning about the purported plot, which had not cited him as its source.
The alleged meeting adds to the growing list of woes for Bolsonaro, who is already under investigation for his possible role in his supporters' uprising in the Brazilian capital on January 8. Suspicions of a coup plot increased after police searching the home of Bolsonaro's former justice minister found a draft decree that would have seized control of the electoral authority and potentially overturned the election.
"Now I am aware, and I will say it loud and clear: That man prepared the coup. They wanted to make that mess on January 1st, but they noticed they could not because there was too much police, too many people on the street," Lula told the TV networkmagazine and journalists later Thursday that he informed de Moraes of what was discussed at the meeting with Bolsonaro and Silveira, and that he declined to participate in the alleged plot.
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