Electoral Court finds Jair Bolsonaro ineligible until 2030

In the fourth court session, Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) stripped former President Jair Bolsonaro of the right to vote for a period of eight years. The casting vote was cast by Judge Carmen-Lucia, the first to vote at the meeting, who insisted on revealing how she voted before reading the arguments in favor of the decision.

With Carmen Lucía’s vote, the TSE won 4 votes in favor of disqualifying Bolsonaro to only 1 in favor of an acquittal, with only two judges left to vote, preventing the result from being changed. The expected final result is that Bolsonaro’s disqualification is determined by 5 votes to 2, since at the time the next person to vote, Cassio Nunez Márquez, was expected to support Jair Bolsonaro, but the final vote would be for the president. TSE, Alexandre de Moraes, whom the former president himself considers the worst enemy he has ever had because he commands several actions against him.

Bolsonaro was accused of abusing political power because in the middle of last year, already in the midst of his election campaign, he called ambassadors from 40 countries to a meeting in the Palacio da Alvorada and made very serious accusations against the Brazilian electoral system and the TSE itself. he accused of preparing falsifications for the election of Lula da Silva. The majority of the TSE judges concluded that Bolsonaro abused the powers given to him by his position to summon ambassadors, and that he illegally used a public building and official press coverage of the act for clear electoral purposes to try to gain an undue advantage over his opponents. in the presidential election in three months, in violation of the law.