Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro was formally accused of an attempted a coup over his 2022 election loss to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the country's police announced Thursday. The big picture: The proposed indictments against Bolsonaro and 36 others conclude the Brazilian federal police's two-year investigation into the fallout from the election that the populist leader never formally conceded,

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro and several aides indicted on charges of attempting a coup in 2022, police say

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.