BRASILIA, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday he will veto a bill passed by Congress cutting former President Jair Bolsonaro’s 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup.
“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.”
(Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu; Writing by Gabriel Araujo; Editing by Aida Pelaez-Fernandez)
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