The ruling takes effect immediately and the former head of state will remain ineligible pending appeals, although this sentence does not revoke his political rights.
With five votes in favor and two against, the Supreme Electoral Court disqualified the ex-military from holding public office until 2030 (Image: PL)
The Electoral Tribunal’s decision to disqualify former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for eight years for abuse of power and misuse of public media marks a victory for democracy.
This was stated on the social networking site Twitter by the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Flavio Dino, who considered that messages emerge from this ruling such that “lying is not a legitimate tool for the exercise of a public function.”
In the same way, he considered that politics is not subject to the law of the jungle, whereby the strongest can do anything.
“Democracy has won its toughest stress test in decades,” Dino finally said.
In the same vein, Labor estimated that it was a “denunciation of the methods of the far-right” and the “industrial spreading of lies, threatening democracy and the use of public power to persecute opponents and overcome conflict”. . “Electoral”.
When he voiced his vote, the case’s rapporteur, Minister Benedetto Gonçalves, linked Bolsonaro with “violent rhetoric and lies” that put “the credibility of electoral justice in check.”
By five votes in favor and two against, the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) disqualified the former soldier from holding public office until 2030 for holding, on July 18, 2022, a meeting with foreign ambassadors broadcast on public television in which he attacked without proof the elective system and electronic ballot boxes.
At the meeting, which took place two and a half months into the election campaign, the ex-governor gave before about 40 foreign diplomats a disinformational presentation about modern voting vessels and suggested the involvement of the armed forces to correct the failures of the system. .
He questioned the integrity of the electoral method and the ministers of the Supreme Electoral Court and the Federal Supreme Court.
Given the facts, the Democratic Party of Trabalhista presented electoral justice against Bolsonaro.
According to the so-called Clean Record Law, the Electoral Court ruling takes effect immediately and the former head of state will remain ineligible while appeals are heard, although this penalty does not revoke his political rights, so he can act in his favor. Allied politicians. In the municipal elections of 2024.
Regarding the court’s decision, Bolsonaro stated that it resulted in a “stab in the back” and that he had recently been stabbed in the stomach, referring to the attack he suffered in 2018.
He announced that he would evaluate with his lawyer the possibilities of appeal, not only to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, but also to the Supreme Court.
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