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Brazilian senators investigating Brazil’s handling of COVID-19 have removed a recommendation from their draft report that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with murder for alleged government errors, Brazilian media reported on Wednesday. informed to.
Several newspapers reported that the senators leading the congressional investigation met late Tuesday to discuss a report prepared by opposition Senator Renan Calheiros and agreed to drop the charges of “murder” and “genocide”. Of.
The draft report still needs to be voted on by a Senate commission and can be vetoed and changed.
Bolsonaro has dismissed the investigation as politically motivated. It is highly unlikely that he will face trial on any such charges that would have to be brought by the prosecutor general of Brazil, who was appointed by Bolsonaro.
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