Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Saturday, April 15th 2023 - 08:33 UTC

  Brazil: Bolsonaro's disenfranchisement requested

  

  Brazil's Electoral Public Prosecutor's Office requested the disenfranchisement of former President Jair Bolsonaro, it was reported. The former head of state has been charged with “abuse of power” for casting doubts about the legitimacy of the electoral system and the electronic ballot boxes in use since 1996.

• Sunday, April 2nd 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  Bolsonaro given 2 days to reply to TSE, faces disenfranchisement

  

  Superior Electoral Court (TSE) Justice Benedito Gonçalves gave former President Jair Bolsonaro two working days to submit his closing arguments in a case that may render him ineligible for public office, Agencia Brasil reported Saturday.

• Friday, March 31st 2023 - 08:18 UTC

  Bolsonaro returns to Brazil despite being under investigation

  

  Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro landed in Brasilia on a Gol Airlines flight from Orlando at 6.37 am local time Thursday after having left the country while he was still head of state in late December to skip Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva's inauguration.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2023 - 15:41 UTC

  Jair Bolsonaro: “it never crossed our mind” to stage a coup d'état

  

  Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stated that he “never” considered staging a coup. The former president is currently being investigated by the Brazilian Supreme Court for “inciting” his followers to violently invade the headquarters of the three branches of government on January 8th.

• Saturday, March 25th 2023 - 10:21 UTC

  Bolsonaro returning to Brazil on March 30

  

  Former President Jair Bolsonaro will be returning to Brazil on March 30 after leaving the country in late December even before completing his 4-year term as head of state, in a move to avoid attending current President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva's Jan. 1 inauguration, it was announced.

• Thursday, March 16th 2023 - 06:39 UTC

  Bolsonaro has five days to deliver Saudi Arabian jewelry

  

  Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was given five days by his country's Court of Audit of the Union (TCU) Wednesday to hand over the jewelry received in 2021 from Saudi Arabia.

• Wednesday, March 15th 2023 - 10:19 UTC

  Bolsonaro wants TCU to hold the jewels pending a final ruling

  

  Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Tuesday asked the Federal Court of Audit (TCU) to keep in its possession a set of jewels received as a gift from Saudi Arabia, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Friday, March 10th 2023 - 10:06 UTC

  Brazilian magistrate says Bolsonaro may not wear or use Arabian jewels

  

  A magistrate from Brazil's Court of Audit (TCU) Thursday banned former President Jair Bolsonaro from wearing and selling jewelry worth R$ 400,000 (around US$ 77,430) brought from Saudi Arabia which the once head of state allegedly admitted having received.

• Monday, March 6th 2023 - 09:30 UTC

  Trump announces his new presidential bid will be “the last battle”

  

  Former US President Donald Trump said during his speech Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) gathering in Maryland that “this is the final battle,” in his first major public appearance since leaving the White House.

• Monday, March 6th 2023 - 07:11 UTC

  “My mission is not over,” Bolsonaro tells conservatives at “Trumpfest” event

  

  Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been nicknamed “The Trump of the Tropics,” got a rock star reception when he made his political rentrée Saturday evening at a US Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in which most Republican contenders for next year's elections were testing the waters, particularly former President Donald Trump.