By Deutsche Welle
The Brazilian Congress approved this Thursday a reduction of sentences for coup imposed on former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) and hundreds of his followers, in a new setback for the Government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
An overwhelming majority of both senators (49 versus 24) and deputies (318 versus 144) rejected Lula’s veto of a law that had already been approved last December with the support of the far right and part of the center.
Five months before the elections that must confront the current president and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the former president, The legislators opened the doors to a reduction for the far-right leader sentenced to 27 years in prison by the Supreme Court last year.
The rule prevents the accumulation of sentences for crimes of a similar nature and accelerates the progression towards the semi-open status, so according to experts the former president will be able to leave the closed regime within a period of between two and four years, sooner than previously anticipated.
