Brazilian authorities have indicted the country’s former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro alongside 36 other individuals as part of the investigation into a coup plot to keep him in power following the election of his successor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva revealed an alleged plot to poison him and Vice President Geraldo Alckmin before they took office in 2022. The revelation comes amid accusations that former President Jair Bolsonaro was involved in a coup attempt following his election loss.

That is because General Prosecutor Paulo Gonet is planning to merge three Federal Police investigations into Bolsonaro's actions against Brazil's democratic system and produce one single global indictment against him,