Brazil’s Lula vows to veto bill cutting Bolsonaro’s sentence

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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a press conference at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia,

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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