In recommending charges against the former president, police say Latin America’s largest country came close to suffering a coup following the 2022 election.

Bolsonaro and 36 other people are charged with attempting a coup to keep him in office after his defeat in the 2022 election.

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,