Brazil’s congress approves bill reducing prison sentence of former president Jair Bolsonaro

Brazil’s largely conservative congress has approved a bill reducing the prison sentence of the far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was convicted last year of attempting a coup. The bill had initially been passed by congress in December, but President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vetoed it in January. In a session on Thursday, the lower house overturned the veto with 318 votes, and the senate followed by 49 votes. If confirmed by a supreme court justice, Bolsonaro’s sentence would fall from 27 years and three months to 22 years and one month.

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