During the pandemic, Bolsonaro was one of the few world leaders to oppose the vaccine, blatantly ignoring fitness restrictions and encouraging society to follow his lead. His administration ignored several emails from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer offering to sell tens of millions of vaccines to Brazil. in 2020 and blatantly criticized a resolution by the then-government of Sao Paulo. João Doria will buy vaccines from the Chinese company Sinovac when no other vaccine was available.
FORMER BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGED HARASSMENT OF BALLENA INHUMP
Brazil’s attorney general will have the final say on whether the police indictment is used to register charges against Bolsonaro in the Supreme Court. This comes from one of several investigations targeting Bolsonaro, who governed between 2019 and 2022.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks on June 29, 2021 in Brasilia, Brazil. Brazil’s federal police have accused Bolsonaro of committing crimes and falsifying his own COVID-19 vaccination data. (Andressa Anholete/Getty Images)
Bolsonaro’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press. The former president denied any wrongdoing during his interrogation in May 2023.
Police accuse Bolsonaro and his aides of falsifying the Health Ministry’s database some time before his trip to the United States in December 2022, two months after he lost his re-election bid to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro needed a vaccination certificate to enter the United States, where he remained for the last days of his term and the first months of Lula’s term.
BRAZILIAN POLICE INVESTIGATE ALLIES OF FORMER PRESIDENT BOLSONARO FOR FILING ELECTION INTERFERENCE
If convicted of falsifying fitness data, the 68-year-old politician could spend up to 12 years in jail, and as little as two years, according to legal analyst Zilan Costa. The maximum prison sentence for a criminal conspiracy charge is 4 years. he said.
Bolsonaro maintains unwavering loyalty among his base, as evidenced by last month’s avalanche, when an estimated 185,000 more people flooded Sao Paulo’s main secondary street to denounce what they (and the former president) call political persecution.
Brazil’s top electoral court has already declared Bolsonaro ineligible until 2030, claiming he abused his strength in the 2022 crusade and cast unfounded doubts on the country’s e-voting system.
Other investigations concern whether Bolsonaro tried to smuggle two sets of valuable diamond jewelry into Brazil and prevent them from being part of the president’s public collection. Another relates to his alleged involvement in the Jan. 8, 2023, uprising in the capital Brasilia, in Shortly after Lula came to power, which resembled the Capitol in Washington two years earlier, he denied any wrongdoing in any case.