Brazil Senators to Vote on Urging Charges for Bolsonaro
Posted on 2021-10-27 07:27:03
A Brazilian Senate committee is voting on a report recommending President Jair Bolsonaro face a series of criminal indictments for actions that allegedly added to the world's second-highest death toll.
The report is the culmination of their six-month investigation of the government's handling of the pandemic.
Its author, Sen. Renan Calheiros, is calling for Bolsonaro to face charges ranging from charlatanism and inciting crime to misuse of public funds and crimes against humanity.
The report holds him responsible for many of Brazil's more than 600,000 COVID-19 deaths.
The decision on whether to file most of the charges will be up to Brazil's prosecutor-general, a Bolsonaro appointee who is widely viewed as protecting the president.
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