Government Brazil's former president Bolsonaro cannot attend Trump's swearing-in ceremony
Brazilian former head of state Jair Bolsonaro will not get his passport back for attending the swearing-in ceremony of future US President Donald Trump. The politician still poses a flight risk, Brazil's highest court declared.
17.01.2025, 02:29
SDA
Bolsonaro said on Thursday that his lawyers would probably appeal. They had demanded that the passport be handed over and argued that Bolsonaro had received an official invitation to Trump's swearing-in ceremony.
The far-right politician, who was president of Brazil from 2019 to 2022, was banned from leaving the country in February last year. Bolsonaro's passport was confiscated following a police operation as part of an investigation into an alleged "coup plot" to prevent the return of his left-wing opponent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the presidency.
