2023-06-30 22:20:00
The former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro was electorally disqualified for eight years for abuse of power in the framework of a disinformation mechanism about the electoral system before his defeat against Lula during the 2022 elections.
Four judges on the court voted to convict Bolsonaro, who narrowly lost the October election to leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, for abuse of political power and misuse of the mediawhile one did not.
The process was resumed with the votes of the magistrate and vice president of the Superior Electoral Tribunal, Cármen Lúcia Antunes, the president of the Tribunal, Alexandre de Moraes, and Kassio Nunes Marques.
The Superior Electoral Tribunal achieved a majority of four votes out of seven with the suffrage of Judge Antunes. The central point of the trial centered on the meeting organized by Bolsonaro himselfwho summoned fifty foreign ambassadors to the official residence of the Presidency, on July 18, 2022, to seriously disqualify the electoral system.
In Thursday’s session, magistrates Floriano de Azevedo Marques and André Ramos Tavares had also voted in favor of the sentence that now falls on the leader of the Liberal Party (PL).
Marqués, for his part, explained how Bolsonaro questioned the credibility of the electoral system throughout 2022: “The president could legitimately abstain, preserve his beliefs, his disbelief, but it was not up to him to institutionally generate suspicions about the reliability of the electoral system, through which he had been elected several times, nor on national television, much less before representatives of foreign nations”.
The vote against the disqualification
Raul Araújo was the only judge whoUntil now, spoke out against the disqualification Bolsonaro’s electoral campaign for the next eight years. The lawyer acknowledged the ex-president’s disinformation campaign, but noted that “the requirement is serious enough.”
“The content of the speech, in its reprehensible parts, had little effect in terms of its alleged attempt to delegitimize the pollswhich is the central argument of the complaint,” argued Araújo.
In addition, the lawyer added that the former president’s right to freedom of expression must be respected and that the speech in front of the ambassadors at the Alvorada Palace had nothing “out of the ordinary.”
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