Ex-president Jair Bolsonaro urges Brazil's Supreme Court to disregard a document found at his minister's home that government says is 'a link in the putschist chain'
Supreme Court is investigating ex-president Bolsonaro after police found a draft decree in the home of ex-justice minister Anderson Torres that Brazil says is"a link in the putschist chain".Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has asked investigators probing his election campaign to disregard a document found at the home of his justice minister that called for a review of the results of the vote.
The draft document found at the home of Anderson Torres — who is currently in detention and being investigated over the January 8 storming of Brasilia's seats of power by Bolsonaro supporters — proposed taking federal control of the supreme court, which is responsible for elections. The document, they argued, was "apocryphal, it never left the residence of third parties, it was never published, nor publicised... it never went beyond the level of reflection."
The decree stated that it would "immediately reestablish the transparency and validity of the 2022 presidential election process."
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