Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro is running out of legal options to avoid prison after the country’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected his appeal against a 27-year sentence for attempting to overturn the 2022 election results, France 24 reported.

Bolsonaro, who lost the election to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was convicted in September for trying to block Lula from taking office. The court found him guilty of five crimes, including forming an armed criminal organisation, attempting to abolish democracy and organising a violent coup plot.

Four out of five judges on the Supreme Court panel voted last week to uphold his 27 years and three months prison term. The result became official at midnight on Friday.

Bolsonaro, 70, has been under house arrest since August in a separa

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