2023-11-01 22:09:00
Bolsonaro, last October in Sao Paulo. Europa Press / Oslaim Bri
This time it is for the use for electoral purposes of the acts of the bicentennial of independence in 2022
01 nov 2023 . Updated at 9:09 p.m.
Another blow for Jair Bolsonaro in Justice. The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) ruled on Tuesday to disqualify the former Brazilian president for eight years for having used the celebration of the bicentennial of the independence of the South American giant – fourteen months ago and when he was still in power – to promote your re-election campaign. There was a true fusion between the official act and the electoral one, said the judge Alexandre de Moraes, president of the TSE and also a member of the Supreme Court, when evaluating the verdict, ruled with five votes in favor and two against.
One of the events pointed out by the court was the rally called by Bolsonaro on Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, when independence day is traditionally celebrated with a military parade In the city center.
The former president assured his followers on September 7, 2022, that the left will not return to power and that the country was involved in a struggle of good against evil.
Bolsonaro was already sentenced in June, by the same court, and with the same number of votes, to eight years of disqualification for incurring in abuse of powerr when he summoned, in June 2022, dozens of foreign ambassadors to a meeting in the presidential palace in which he raised doubts about the electronic voting system in Brazil.
The sentences are not cumulative, but the TSE decision is relevant, because the appeal to the two sentences must be made separately, thus reducing the chances that Bolsonaro can run for public office again.
On Tuesday, the former Minister of Defense was also sentenced to eight years of disqualification for the same case. Walter Braga Netto. This ruling leaves the military faction of Bolsonarism shaken, because the former general had planned to run, next year, in the elections for the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro. A wing of the Liberal Party (PL) is already promoting Flvio Bolsonaroson of the former president, as substitute in those elections.
This week marks one year since the elections that returned Lula da Silva to power. It was such a huge victory that [Bolsonaro] He was knocked out, confined to his house for a month, in panic, crying. There are people who say that he had stopped talking, but in reality he was preparing the blow for the day on which they were going to give me the president-elect diploma, the leftist leader said.
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