Brazil’s Electoral Court upholds Jair Bolsonaro’s disqualification conviction

The Supreme Electoral Court, TSE, Brazil’s top electoral body, rejected Jair Bolsonaro’s appeal and barred the former president from running for office for eight years, making his project to run for president again in 2026 unviable. themselves for attacks on the electoral process and abuse of economic power and the media.

The trial, which upheld and affirmed the former president’s incompetence, is being held virtually, with the judges posting their votes and corresponding arguments on the TSE’s official website, and will only conclude on the 28th, or earlier if everyone has already done so. voted. But on Friday evening, the 22nd, of the 7 judges forming the TSE 4 plenary session, they had already voted to uphold Bolsonaro’s conviction, that is, a majority had already been formed to confirm the verdict.

Jair Bolsonaro was found guilty in a previous trial by a unanimous vote of the court’s seven judges, a number likely to repeat again. The former head of state was condemned for the fact that in June 2022, already in the pre-election atmosphere of the October presidential elections of the same year, he summoned the ambassadors of 40 countries to the Palácio da Alvorada and was surrounded by uniformed generals and covered by the official press. , questioning, without any evidence or proof, the security of the electronic voting machines used in the elections, and also, also without evidence, alleging that a major conspiracy had been formulated within the TSE to remove him from power and hand over the presidency to Lula da Silva , who actually won the dispute, but without any trace of wrongdoing.