Brazil's Senate approves Bolsonaro's Supreme Court pick

Former Brazil's Attorney-General Andre Luiz de Almeida Mendonca, nominee of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro to be the next Supreme Court Justice, attends a session of the Committee on Constitution and Justice of the Senate in Brasilia, Brazil, December 1, 2021. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil's Senate on Wednesday approved President Jair Bolsonaro's "terribly Evangelical" pick for a spot on the Supreme Court, adding a conservative voice to the 11-member panel to represent the views of the country's vast religious right.

The Senate voted 47 to 32 to approve Andre Mendonca, the former attorney general and a conservative ally of the president. The appointment, which was pushed by Evangelicals and other conservative Christians, will not reverse the overall progressive lean of the court after years of left-wing and centrist rule, but could begin to shift its politics back right.