2023-06-30 18:36:42
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced on Friday to eight years of ineligibility for “abuse of power”, due to the “false” information he disseminated on the electronic voting system before his defeat in the 2022 poll. .
The judgment of the seven magistrates of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) of Brasilia, decided by five votes to two, deprives Mr. Bolsonaro, 68, of a presidential candidacy in 2026 and opens the battle for his succession within the right and extreme right. His defense, however, has indicated that it will appeal.
Jair Bolsonaro denounced a “stab in the back” on Friday. “I am not dead, we will continue to work (…). It’s not the end of the right in Brazil,” the far-right leader told the press during a trip to Belo Horizonte, in the southeast. He said he would appeal to the Supreme Court.
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