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The head of state of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaroaccused this Monday the president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), magistrate Edson Fachin, of leading a conspiracy to facilitate the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the presidential elections next October.
In an interview with the Terraviva television channel, the far-right leader questioned again, without any evidence, the transparency of the Brazilian electoral system and ensured that it could be subject to fraud to favor Lula, who leads all the polls by a wide margin. voting intention for the presidential elections.
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Bolsonarowho is second in the polls but at a great distance from the progressive leader and can be defeated even without the need for a second round, advanced even further in his accusations and pointed directly at the president of the electoral body, whom he said that “He does everything to favor Lula.”
Fachin’fHe was the instructor of the process that got Lula out of jail (where he was serving a sentence in a corruption trial) and now presides over the Superior Electoral Court”, affirmed the ruler.
“He does everything so that we do not have transparency (in the elections) and, obviously, in my opinion, so that Lula is elected in an unacceptable way.”, he added.
Bolsonaro For several months, he has been leading a duel with magistrates of the Electoral Court and the Supreme Court of Justice for statements in which he assures that the electronic voting system in Brazil is susceptible to fraud and for the dissemination of false news on social networks, for who are already facing criminal proceedings.
Despite the fact that the polls indicate that it will be difficult for you to win the elections and that you face high rates of unpopularity, the president assures that he manages to gather crowds at the public events he attends throughout the country and that this shows, in his opinion, that the majority of Brazilians support his re-election.
“Messrs. Fachin, (Luis Roberto) Barroso and (Alexandre de) Moraes (magistrates of the supreme courts who have issued measures contrary to the president): from what is seen in the streets with me, it is impossible that we do not have a second electoral round in Brazil or that I don’t win the elections in the first round“, he claimed.
The ruler recalled that Fachin He came to defend Lula’s participation in the 2018 presidential elections despite the fact that at the time the former president (2003-2010) was serving his sentence for corruption after being convicted by a court of second instance, which disqualified him electorally.
“In my time, those who got votes at the polls won the elections, but now it seems, and I want to be wrong -although I have my right to distrust-, that the one who wins the elections is the one who has a friend in the electoral court to tell with votes at the pollshe added.
“It is almost impossible for me not to win in the first round (with an absolute majority of the votes). I hope nothing happens because we are working so that the elections flow normally“, said.
According to the latest polls, Lula is close to 50% of the intention to vote for the first round of the presidential elections and has an advantage of about twenty percentage points over Bolsonaro.
The polls also indicate that the progressive leader would prevail with a wide advantage over the far-right in the event that both have to dispute a second round.
Source: Elcomercio
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