Bolsonaro laid out plan for Brazil coup after defeat by Lula, ex-commanders say

Testimony contained in documents released by supreme court details alleged plot to overturn result of 2022 Brazilian election

Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro presented top military officials with a plan to carry out a coup d'etat after his defeat in the October 2022 election, two former commanders have told the police, according to newly released judicial documents.

In testimonies made public on Friday, former army commander Marco Antonio Freire Gomes and former air force commander Carlos Baptista Junior said Bolsonaro held several meetings in December 2022 in which he presented a document that would have served as the basis to overturn the results of the election, which he lost to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.