Overview
- The Supreme Federal Court will host “Democracia Inabalada: 8 de janeiro – Um dia para não esquecer” in Brasília on January 8, 2026.
- The program opens with the exhibition “8 de janeiro: Mãos da Reconstrução” at the STF’s Espaço do Servidor.
- The museum of the court will screen “Democracia Inabalada: Mãos da Reconstrução,” followed by a journalists’ roundtable and the closing debate “Um dia para não esquecer” in the Salão Nobre.
- On January 8, 2023, supporters of Jair Bolsonaro invaded and vandalized the Planalto Palace, the National Congress and the Supreme Court in protests over Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s election.
- Following investigations, the STF convicted Bolsonaro and associates for attempting a coup, an effort President of the Court Edson Fachin described as the visible face of a subterranean movement to overturn the 2022 result.