São Paulo.- Former President Jair Bolsonaro became this Thursday the third former head of state of Brazil to be convicted, whose sentence will be announced tomorrow by the Supreme Court.
The far-right leader, who governed Brazil between 2019 and 2022, will have to serve a sentence for a coup and four other charges against the democratic order.
These are the other two Brazilian presidents who were convicted:
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He is currently serving his third term after having governed Brazil between 2003 and 2010.
He was convicted in two corruption trials associated with construction companies involved in the Lava Jato operation, the first in 2017 and the second in 2019.
He was initially sentenced to seven and twelve years in prison, although in higher instances those times were revised several times. Finally, the Supreme Court annulled both processes in 2021 due to procedural errors.
Lula spent 580 days in confinement in the Federal Police jail in Curitiba. He was released in November 2019 because the Supreme Court allowed him to appeal while free.
- Fernando Collor. Head of State between 1990 and 1992.
He was sentenced in 2023 by the Supreme Court to eight years and ten months in prison for corruption and money laundering for his complicity in the diversion of resources from the state-owned fuel distributor BR.
Due to his age (76 years old) and his health problems, the court granted him the benefit of house arrest, which he has been serving since last April in his mansion in the city of Maceió.
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