European Greens push for trade sanctions if Brazil's Bolsonaro 'subverts' democracy

Brazil's President and candidate for re-election Jair Bolsonaro attends a campaign rally in Santos, Brazil September 28, 2022. REUTERS/Carla Carniel

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Fifty center-left members of the European Parliament urged the European Union on Wednesday to closely monitor Sunday's election in Brazil for any attempt by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to subvert democracy, and said trade sanctions should be imposed if he did.

In an open letter to the European Commission's president, Ursula von der Leyen, and its vice-president, Josep Borrell, the Greens–European Free Alliance and some Social Democrat MEPs said Bolsonaro has systematically attacked Brazil's electoral system.