Brazil’s supreme court has decided to put former president Jair Bolsonaro on trial over an alleged coup plot.
All five judges accepted the charges against him, related to an effort to cling to power after his election defeat in 2022.
Brazil’s prosecutor general charged Mr Bolsonaro and 33 others last month.
The plans allegedly included poisoning his successor, current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and killing a Supreme Court judge.
Mr Bolsonaro has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and says he is being politically persecuted.
Coup charges carry a sentence of up to 12 years in prison and combined with other potential crimes. he could face decades in prison.
The former army captain was president from January 2019 to December 2022.
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