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In Brazil, as far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro's judgement day approaches, all eyes turn to the 5 Supreme Court justices who will rule on his case. Our correspondent Brian Mier has more. teleSUR

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00:00And in Brazil, as far-right former President Heide Bolsonaro's judgment day approaches,

00:05all eyes turn to the five Supreme Court justices who will rule on his case.

00:09Our correspondent Brian Mir has more.

00:13On September 2nd, the first working group of the Brazilian Supreme Court will start

00:17its final deliberations in the case against ex-president Jair Bolsonaro and seven of his

00:22cronies for plotting to enact a military coup.

00:25The group is made up of five justices, and a unanimous decision would be final.

00:30Although conviction seems imminent, some people are worried that Justice Luis Fux will attempt

00:35to stall the procedure, as he has done before, buying time for the opposition by pushing it

00:40into the new year.

00:42I will resolve myself to analyze this better in the post-hearing space if I wish to resolve

00:50the right, not a right, is a power, not a right, a power and a duty to exercise the power

00:56of review.

00:57I effectively need to receive the formal complaints so that I can then, indeed, deepen my understanding

01:05of all these questions I have raised here as observations.

01:11In 2016, Fux voted in favor of removing President Dilma Rousseff from office for an infraction

01:18she was later ruled innocent of.

01:19In 2018, he voted in favor of opening an exception to the Constitution to enable the imprisonment

01:26of Lula da Silva.

01:28Earlier this month, he was the only justice to vote against house arrest for Jair Bolsonaro.

01:33Nevertheless, many legal experts believe that the Bolsonaro ruling will proceed according

01:37to this type of coup-et-en-coup.

01:44This is a historical trial.

01:45Brazil can make an example of how democracy can resist this type of coup-et-en-coup.

01:48I believe that the ruling will take place normally.

01:52The Brazilian public is carefully accompanying the process.

01:56There has been an intense level of press coverage.

01:59I don't see any available space for any of the justice in the first working group to make

02:06any type of manoeuvre.

02:07Hopes are very high.

02:08We have hope that everything proceeds according to the law.

02:13Final deliberations in the Bolsonaro trial are expected to last for 10 days, culminating

02:19on September 12th.

02:20If ruled guilty, the far-right former president is facing a prison sentence of up to 44 years.

02:27Brian Mir, tell us, sir.

02:29Hesifih.

Brazil | Supreme Court to start final deliberations on case against fmr. Pres. Bolsonaro

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