The majority of a Brazilian Supreme Court panel has voted to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro of planning to overturn the country’s 2022 election, in a plot prosecutors say contemplated assassinating the president-elect in a bid to cling to power.

The decision in the landmark case became apparent on Thursday when the third judge of the five-member panel determined that Bolsonaro was guilty of all five counts he faced.

Bolsonaro has been charged with plotting a coup d’état, taking part in an armed criminal organization, attempting to abolish Brazil’s democratic order by force, committing violent acts against state institutions and damaging protected public property during the storming of government buildings by his supporters on January 8, 2023.

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