Sunday’s demonstrations will take place across the country, due to the possibility that Bolsonaro and seven of his allies will appear before the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to answer for attempted coups following the 2022 elections.

The STF unanimously accepted the indictment for the attempted coup, which turns Bolsonaro and the other supporters from those denounced into defendants in a criminal case. The court will now begin the punitive process, which could convict or acquit the former president and the other defendants.

The decision was made based on the complaint filed by the Attorney General’s Office regarding the so-called crucial nucleus of a criminal organization aimed at institutional disruption.

In addition to Bolsonaro, the group includes former ministers Augusto Heleno; Walter Braga Netto (Civil House); Paulo Sérgio Nogueira (Defense); Anderson Torres (Justice); former Navy Commander Almir Garnier; Federal Representative Alexandre Ramagem, former director of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency; and Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, former aide-de-camp to the former president.

In February, Attorney General Paulo Gonet filed a complaint against Bolsonaro and 33 others for attempted coup d’état, violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, criminal organization, aggravated damages, and impairment of declared assets, emphasizing that the “criminal organization documented a coup plan,” and that during the investigations, manuscripts, digital files, and text exchanges were found “revealing the progress of the breakdown of the democratic order.”

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