Brazil Senate approves bill to cut Bolsonaro's 27-year sentence for coup plot

A general view of a session to vote on a bill, which proposes reducing the sentences for January 8, 2023, riot convictions, including former President Jair Bolsonaro's, at the Brazilian Federal Senate in Brasilia, Brazil, December 17, 2025. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

BRASILIA, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Brazil's Senate approved on Wednesday a bill to shorten the 27-year prison sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro, although it is likely to face resistance from the Supreme Court and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The bill was approved by the lower house last week and now goes to Lula, who has not said whether he will sign it into law or veto it. It could cut the former president's prison term to just over two years.