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Weekly Report - 11 September 2025 (WR-25-36)
BRAZIL: Far right holds final rallies before Bolsonaro’s conviction
The 7 September Independence Day events in Brazil have in recent years become a major occasion for the far right. During his term in office, former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) revelled in the military pageantry of the official celebrations and used the platform to lambast the country’s institutions, such as the supreme court (STF). While Bolsonaro remains under house arrest [WR-25-31], it was the right-wing governor of São Paulo state, Tarcísio de Freitas, who took up the mantle of insulting the judiciary. He addressed crowds of Bolsonaro supporters on Independence Day and criticised STF justice Alexandre de Moraes, the presiding judge in the case which could see Bolsonaro sentenced to prison for allegedly plotting a coup d’état in 2022 to stay in power after losing the election that year.
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