Bolsonaro asks for a “fair trial” before a decision that can declare him ineligible in the 2026 elections

The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) requested this Wednesday a “fair trial”, a day before the electoral court begins to decide his fate in a process that could leave him ineligible and prevent him from contesting the 2026 presidential.

“There is no materiality (foundation) in the process. There should be no other result than archiving (…) I ask the judges to make a fair trial”, said the far-right in an interview with the CNN Brazil channel.

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He Superior Electoral Court (TSE) will judge Bolsonaro starting Thursday for criticism of the electronic voting system in Brazil during a meeting with ambassadors in July 2022, before the presidential elections in which he was defeated by the leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

In his speech before the diplomats at the Alvorada presidential residence, Bolsonaro assured without evidence that he was looking for “fix bugs” of the current electronic ballot box system with the “participation of the Armed Forces”.

And he slipped that the supposed vulnerability of the system could serve to manipulate the electoral result against him.

But hours after he began to be tried, the far-right ex-president denied that that speech represented “attacks” to the voting system, and assured that he limited himself to exposing “how the polls work” to ambassadors, “who do not vote”.

It is almost taken for granted that Bolsonaro, 68, will be sentenced, two judicial sources who have followed the case told AFP.

If on Thursday the members of the TSE do not get to vote, two more plenary sessions are scheduled, on June 27 and 29.

Nor is a postponement of the process ruled out, which could happen if one of the seven TSE judges requests more time to evaluate his decision.

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Bolsonaro assured on Wednesday that he “ideal” It would be that a judge asks for hearing time in the “startof the trial.

Lastly, he noted that regardless of the outcome of the trial, he wishes to continue to gravitate towards politics.

“I want to continue working, active and collaborating with the future of Brazil”, he added.

Source: Elcomercio

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