Bolsonaro was fined in Brazil for illegal propaganda

The Supreme Federal Court (STF) refuted the defense arguments of the former military man regarding the decision of the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) that imposed a corrective fine of 20 thousand rials (about four thousand dollars).

Such a case refers to the meeting called by the then president with the ambassadors, at the Alvorada Palace (the official residence of the governors in Brasilia).

At the event in July 2022, Bolsonaro launched attacks against the electoral system.

He repeated his thesis, which has never been proven, that the Brazilian electoral method is vulnerable to fraud and attacked the IEC and the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

The speech to diplomats was broadcast live on social networks and on Brazilian television.

Bolsonaro’s defense and the Liberal Party, to which the former paratrooper belongs, have stated in their appeals that the case should not be analyzed by electoral justice, merely preaching the regular exercise of freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Powers of the former head of state.

The fine was unanimously confirmed by the second layer of the STF, which maintained the decision of Minister Antonio Dias Toffoli in the two appeals filed against the TSE ruling.

The Electoral Tribunal ratified the understanding that Bolsonaro revealed “deliberately untrue” facts about the voting and vote-counting process.

For Toffoli, according to the STF memo, the disclosure of events “taken out of context in the speech to diplomats represents relevant conduct in the field of electoral law and has been analyzed based on criteria dealing with electoral propaganda.”

In view of the above, the Supreme Court cannot reconsider the case, because it is an “unconstitutional matter.”

At the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the process received the opinion of the Ministry of General Elections in favor of Bolsonaro’s disqualification, and was signed by the elected Deputy Prosecutor, Paulo Junet Branco, who was indicated by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday to take over the leadership of the Prosecutor’s Office. Republic.

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