EDITORIAL. The sentencing of Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison stands as a testament to the political maturity of a nation once subjected to the arbitrariness and brutality of a military dictatorship until 1985.

The presumptive ruling by a majority of five judges makes him the first ex-president in the country to be convicted for attacking democracy.

Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election