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What next after Brazil’s Bolsonaro given 27-year term for coup plotting?

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been convicted of attempting a coup to stay in office after losing his re-election bid in 2022, becoming the first former president found guilty of trying to overturn an election in the country with the largest economy in Latin America. France 24’s Andrew Hilliar takes a look at the significance of the verdict and some of the reaction to it.

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