Brazil’s Electoral Court maintains Bolsonaro ineligible for the 2026 elections

He Superior Electoral Court (TSE) of Brazil This Thursday he rejected the former president’s appeal JairBolsonaro and upheld his decision to declare him ineligible for eight years for “abuse of political power”By misinforming about the electoral system.

Unanimously, the seven judges rejected the former president’s defense appeal and reaffirmed their decision. TSE of June 30th that left Bolsonaro out of the next 2026 presidential elections.

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The far right, who described the sentence as “stab in the back“, he had already announced that he will also appeal to the eleven magistrates of the Federal Court of Justice (STF), the country’s highest authority.

The judges had from Friday to Thursday to present their decision on the electoral court website, in the so-called “virtual plenary”, without debating in person.

Bolsonaro was condemned by the TSE for “abuse of political power and misuse of the media“, having questioned the reliability of the electronic voting system with information”false”during a meeting with ambassadors in July 2022, three months before the presidential elections.

In that June decision, the TSE had reached a majority of five votes to two against the former president.

Bolsonaro lost the October elections by a small margin to the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (49.1% of votes against 50.9%).

At the event with diplomats at the Alvorada presidential residence, Bolsonaro guaranteed without proof that he was looking for “fix bugs” of the electronic voting system with the “participation of Armed forces”.

In his speech, broadcast on public TV and social media, the former Army captain said that the supposed vulnerability of the system could serve to manipulate the result against him, something he repeated countless times during the electoral campaign against Lula.

After the defeat of their leader in October, radical Bolsonarists blocked roads and camped in front of barracks across the country, calling for military intervention.

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On January 8, a week after Lula took office, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters invaded and looted the buildings of the Presidencyof Congress It’s from Supreme Court in Brasilia.

The extreme right faces another 15 administrative proceedings in the Electoral Court and is the target of five investigations in the Supreme Court, with prison sentences.

In another case, the electoral court sentenced Bolsonaro this Thursday to pay a fine of 10 thousand reais (around US$1,980) for promoting negative propaganda against Lula during the campaign.

Source: Elcomercio

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