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Sao Paulo (CNN)A Brazilian commission investigating the government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic has called for transgression charges against President Jair Bolsonaro.
Seven of the commission's eleven senators voted connected Tuesday to enactment the recommendations of a 1,288-page report into the crisis, which condemned the populist leader's actions.
The papers calls for charges against 2 companies and 78 individuals, including Bolsonaro, implicit the pandemic's tremendous toll connected the country.
More than 605,000 radical person died of Covid-19 successful Brazil -- the second-highest fig of deaths successful the satellite aft the United States.
The study alleges that Bolsonaro's authorities allowed the lethal microorganism to dispersed done the state successful a failed bid to execute herd immunity. It recommends indicting the president personally with 9 crimes, including incitement to crime, charlatanism, and crimes against humanity.
Bolsonaro has repeatedly dismissed the commission's probe and the resulting study arsenic politically motivated.
Video of the committee proceeding broadcast by TV Senado, a Brazilian network, showed senators hugging successful solemnisation aft the effect of the ballot was announced.
The last papers -- the effect of six months of probe -- was submitted to the Attorney General's Office connected Wednesday. Attorney General Augusto Aras confirmed receipt of the commission's recommendations and present has 30 days to denote immoderate measures.
However, Aras is considered an state of the president and is not expected to prosecute charges.
The committee is besides expected to nonstop a transcript of the study to the International Criminal Court successful the Hague.
'Reckless' moves
Commission rapporteur Senator Renan Calheiros archetypal presented the study publically past week.
One of the document's main conclusions is that the Brazilian government, "omitted and opted to enactment successful a non-technical and reckless mode successful the combat against the pandemic" ... "deliberately exposing the colonisation to a factual hazard of wide infection."
The study besides criticizes the government's discouragement of sanitary measures, including going against technological proposal including the usage of societal distancing and the usage of masks, and denounces its propulsion towards ineffective alleged treatments against Covid-19 specified arsenic hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
In scathing remarks connected Tuesday, Calheiros said that portion the report's findings property work for the uncontrolled pandemic to galore successful Brazil, Bolsonaro bears the main culpability.
"It is (the responsibility) chiefly of this president, this serial killer, who has a decease compulsion and continues to repetition everything helium has done before," Calheiros told reporters astatine a property conference.
'It is absurd what these guys person done'
Bolsonaro has already rejected the commission's findings arsenic biased, and connected Monday complained astir the study during an interrogation with a section vigor broadcaster successful Mato Grosso bash Sul.
"They statement maine arsenic genocidal, charlatan, papers forger and exterminator. It is absurd what these guys person done," the President said, referring to the lawmakers progressive successful the commission.
Bolsonaro has agelong downplayed the severity of the coronavirus, doubled down connected enactment for drugs without proven efficacy against the disease, and argued for the request to prioritize Brazil's economical health. He tested affirmative for Covid-19 successful 2020.
The commission's findings whitethorn undermine Bolsonaro's bid for reelection successful adjacent October's wide election. As Brazil continues to grapple with the pandemic, the president's support ratings person slipped.
A recent poll, released successful mid-September by Brazil's largest sentiment polling radical Datafolha Institute, showed that 53% of Brazilians see Bolsonaro's presidency to beryllium "bad oregon awful" -- the highest disapproval complaint successful this canvass since helium took bureau successful 2019.
Camilo Rocha successful Sao Paulo contributed.
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