Brazilian ex-president Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup.

AFP looks at what’s next for the far-right leader and how his dramatic conviction could impact next year’s election.

– Will Bolsonaro go straight to prison? –

The 70-year-old former army captain cannot be imprisoned “until all legal avenues of appeal have been exhausted,” Thiago Bottino, a professor of penal law at the Getulio Vargas Foundation told AFP.

A Supreme Court source explained that a summary of the judgment must first be approved by the court — a formality — on September 23. The court then has 60 days to publish its deliberations in full.

Only then can Bolsonaro appeal, as his lawyers have confirmed he will.

He can either appeal to the same five-judge Supreme Court panel that

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