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The Brazilian Supreme Court has convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro of attempting to overturn the country’s 2022 election, leaving the politician facing a decades-long sentence for leading what prosecutors called a criminal conspiracy.

Four out of five justices on a Supreme Court panel found Bolsonaro guilty on all five counts he faced, sentencing him to 27 years and three months in prison.

The charges included planning a coup d’état, taking part in an armed criminal organization, attempting to abolish Brazil’s democratic order by force, damaging protected public property, and committing violent acts against state institutions.

Bolsonaro sought to “annihilate the essential pillars of the democratic rule-of-law state” and restore “dictatorship in Brazil,” Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said as he announced the verdict on Thursday.