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the electoral court of Brazil resumes this Tuesday the trial against the former president Jair Bolsonaro of course abuse of power, which could be resolved this week with his political disqualification for eight years.
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He Superior Electoral Court (TSE) judges the far-right leader for attacks against the electronic voting system in Brazil during a meeting with ambassadors in July 2022, three months before he was defeated at the polls by the leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Tuesday’s session, scheduled at 7:00 p.m. local time (22:00 GMT), will begin with the vote of the rapporteur of the case, the judge Benedict Goncalveswho will be the first to present his opinion of the seven members of the TSE, based in Brasilia.
If the vows are not completed, a third plenary session is scheduled for Thursday.
In the first session of the trial, last Thursday, the prosecution requested that the Ex leader (2019-2022) be declared “ineligible” due to “abuse of political power and misuse of the media.”
According to the prosecution, in the meeting with ambassadors Bolsonaro “tried to give the wrong impression that the electoral process” in Brazil “it is dark” and conducive to “manipulations“, with the “aim to discredit the result” electoral.
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Bolsonaro: “I will not despair”
In his speech to diplomats at the presidential residence of the Alvorada in 2022, Bolsonaro He assured without evidence that he was looking for “fix bugs” of the current electronic ballot box system with the “participation of the Armed forces”.
The former captain said that the supposed vulnerability of the system could be used to manipulate the electoral result against him.
He far-right leader68, denies having committed any crime while showing little confidence in an acquittal.
“The trend, what everyone says, is that I’m going to be ineligible”stated Bolsonaro in an interview published this Tuesday by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo.
But “I’m not going to despair”, “I will continue to do my part”, added.
On his side, the lawyer of Bolsonaro, Tarcisio Vieiraon Thursday compared the case to that of the famous Jewish captain alfred dreyfusunjustly condemned in France at the end of the 19th century, asking that a “mistake” similar.
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Appeal before the Supreme
The lawyer anticipated that in case of conviction, the defense will appeal the sentence before the supreme court.
A disablement policy would leave Bolsonaro outside of the next presidential election.
“In 2026, if I am alive and eligible, if that is the will of the people, I’m going to run for the presidency againBolsonaro said last week.
Almost half of Brazilians voted for the former president in the second round of the October electionswon by Lula by a narrow margin.
the one of TSE It will be the first of a series of decisions that could fall on the Ex leaderwho faces more than a dozen administrative processes in the electoral court.
It is also the subject of five investigations in the Federal Supreme Court, with prison sentences, including one for his alleged role as mastermind of the assault on the three powers by his followers on 8 January in Brasilia.
Source: Elcomercio
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