Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is a little closer to being out of politics, at least for a long time. The Public Electoral Ministry of Brazil, a kind of Prosecutor’s Office for electoral matters, has asked that the justice system disqualify him for eight years, understanding that he committed an abuse of power by criticizing electronic voting in a controversial meeting with ambassadors last year, when he was still he was president.
It was July 2022 and Brazil was experiencing the pre-campaign, when Bolsonaro summoned dozens of ambassadors from various countries to alert them about the supposed danger posed by electronic ballot boxes – which have been used in Brazil for more than 20 years. The former president spent every month prior to the electoral appointment attacking that electronic system and warning his followers that if they prevailed, the elections would not be safe. This thesis attributes to him the basis for not openly acknowledging his defeat against the current president, Luiz Inácio lula because Silva. One of the parties that were in position at the time, the Partido Democrático Trabalhista (PDT), denounced the act with the ambassadors and now the Prosecutor’s Office agrees.
In the accusation, the party argued that Bolsonaro used the structure of his official residence, the Palacio de la Alvorada in Brasilia, to attack the integrated electoral system. In addition, the act was broadcast by the state-owned Brazilian Communication Company (EBC), which would reinforce the idea that the far-right leader abused his position as president to propagate his conspiracy theory.
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