BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil’s lower house of Congress has voted to fast-track an amnesty bill backed by the right-wing opposition that could include relief for former President Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters sentenced to prison for their roles in 2023 riots after his electoral defeat.

Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest, was sentenced last week by a Supreme Court panel to 27 years and three months in prison for plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 election, which he lost to leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

His sons and supporters have touted legislative amnesty as one of his political avenues to freedom, although the legality of such a move remains contentious. Two Supreme Court justices have already argued that any attempt to pardon those convicted of plotting a coup woul

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