Bolsonaro attended meeting about plot to keep him in power, senator says
by Constance Malleret in Rio de Janeiro from World news | The Guardian on (#68FBW)
Senator says he was asked to get justice to make compromising comments on tape as Bolsonaro sat in silence'
A close ally of Jair Bolsonaro has turned against Brazil's former president, claiming that an aide to the far-right leader tried to coerce" him into joining a conspiracy to annul the October elections and keep Bolsonaro in power.
Senator Marcos do Val claimed at a news conference on Thursday that he was invited to a meeting on 9 December with the then president by a fellow member of congress, Daniel Silveira, to discuss a plan to save Brazil" .
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