Brazil's Supreme Court has banned former President Jair Bolsonaro from leaving the country, despite his statement and desire to attend the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump.. Bloomberg reports this.

On January 8, the ex-head of state said in his X that he had received an invitation from the team of the winner of the presidential race in the United States. The politician said that he was pleased with the invitation and would try to attend the celebrations.

“I will represent in the United States the conservatives, the right, the good, the Brazilian people, if it is God’s will,” Bolsonaro said.

Subsequently, the politician appealed to the Supreme Court with a request to issue his passport to leave the country, which was confiscated from him in February 2024. Bolsonaro's lawyers also provided the judge with a copy of an email to the president's son about the event, but the text did not contain information about the event.

Journalists write that the Prosecutor General's Office filed a protest against the statement of the ex-head of state, and the case was heard in court. Prosecutor General Paulo Gonet said in the request filed by Bolsonaro's lawyers there is no evidence that there is anything about the trip that "

Judge Alexandre de Moraes listened to the arguments of both sides and decided to reject Bolsonaro's request. In the motivational part of its decision, the court said that the refusal was related to the investigation into the attempted coup by supporters of the ex-president, for which his passports were taken away and his movement around the country was restricted..

Earlier it was reported that supporters of ex-President Bolsonaro were storming government buildings. Demonstrators threw iron bars and stones at police and smashed their cars.. They wanted to break through to the residence of the current president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, but he was evacuated in time.

It subsequently became known that the ex-president of Brazil could have forged a COVID-19 vaccination certificate. According to investigators, at the end of December 2022, Jair Bolsonaro instructed his assistant to make fake documents for him and his 12-year-old daughter.