Brazil’s Federal Police have indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people on charges of attempting a coup to keep him in office after his electoral defeat in the 2022 elections.

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.

Brazil's top public prosecutor is not likely to issue any indictments until next year for former President Jair Bolsonaro, members of his government and military officers who allegedly planned a coup after his 2022 election defeat,

SAO PAULO (AP) — Police have formally accused Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 others of attempting a coup to keep the right-wing leader in office after his electoral defeat in 2022. Their allegations threaten to torpedo Bolsonaro's hopes of returning to politics.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro plotted a coup to overturn the 2022 election along with dozens of ex-ministers and senior aides, federal police said in a formal accusation filed on Thursday with the country's Supreme Court.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday was among 37 people indicted for allegedly attempting to coordinate a coup d'etat last year.

Bolsonaro was one of 37 people named by the country’s federal police in allegations of a violent abolition of the Democratic state of law, coup d’état and being a criminal organization.

The former right-wing Brazilian president is accused of attempting to use the military to keep himself in power

Former President Jair Bolsonaro could face criminal charges over accusations that he was involved in plans to stage a coup after losing the 2022 elections.