Brazil’s Lula vows to veto bill cutting Bolsonaro’s 27-year prison sentence

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday said he will veto a bill passed by the country’s Congress to cut former President Jair Bolsonaro’s 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup and also told journalists he wanted to reduce tensions between the United States and Venezuela.
Brazil’s Senate on Wednesday voted to approve the bill – which was passed by the country’s lower house last week – after Bolsonaro began serving his sentence in November for plotting a coup against Lula after losing the 2022 election.
“With all due respect to Congress, when it gets to my table, I will veto it,” Lula told a press conference. “I have the right to veto it, and then they have the right to overturn my veto or not.”