BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A panel of Supreme Court justices is set to decide this week whether former President Jair Bolsonaro is guilty or not of plotting to overthrow Brazil's democracy and hang onto power illegally after his 2022 electoral defeat .

The panel’s chairman Cristiano Zanin opened Tuesday’s session at around 9.15 a.m. local time. The judicial panel began by reviewing final requests from the parties. Court sessions are scheduled every day through Friday.

Bolsonaro did not attend the court.

The far-right ex-president is facing five counts at trial for allegedly conspiring to stage a coup after his narrow loss to current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , a leftist who first won the presidency two decades earlier.

If convicted by the five-judge panel in the verdict ex

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