Bolsonaro will be investigated for allegations of attempting to exceed his powers and interfering with federal police appointments to prevent his associates from interrogating

• Brazilian President Javier Bolsonaro // Photo: AP

While the Corona epidemic is raging in the country and the efforts of Brazilian President Javier Bolesnaro to adopt routine policies are increasingly criticized, a new blow hit the president's head today.

The Brazilian Supreme Court has approved a sixty-day investigation into the president's case after he allegedly tried to intervene, in violation of his authority, in appointing the federal police chief, to block the possibility of a criminal investigation against his associates.

The person who made the allegations is not another former Justice Minister, Sergio Moro, who resigned last week after a heated dispute with the president around the appointment of the Brazilian police chief. Attorney General Augusto Aras will invite the former minister to testify against the president. 

Bolesnaro called the allegations against him "baseless," but also the problematic timing, in the midst of the Corona epidemic, which the president has difficulty taking over or taking responsibility for, and the suspicion of corruption that characterized the leftist governments that preceded Bolesnaro's right-wing president, are important political allies.

If the state's attorney general decides to indict Bolesnaro, he will have to go to the lower house of the Brazilian Congress, where the president is enjoying a solid, before a trial in the Supreme Court opens. Meanwhile, both the president's supporters and his opponents have launched a wave of protests on the streets of major cities. 

A comprehensive survey in the country shows that the majority of the public believes the former Justice Minister's claims to be true, but only forty-six percent of the public believes the president should resign. 

Meanwhile, the death toll from the Corona virus in Brazil has risen to 4,631 and the official number is more than 60,000. Experts estimate that the number of people affected by the virus in the country is much higher, but due to poor health services in the poor areas of the country, the true figure is not accessible.