Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced late Tuesday, October 31, by the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) to a new disqualification from participating in elections for abuse of political power. In June, the same TSE already disqualified Bolsonaro from running in elections until 2030 in another process.
Unlike what happened in the trial last June, when the former defense minister and former vice-presidential candidate in Bolsonaro’s re-election attempt, General Braga Neto, was acquitted, this time the soldier was also disqualified from participating in the elections. As a result, Neto’s Braga, on whom Jair Bolsonaro has staked all his chips in next year’s municipal elections in the city of Rio de Janeiro, cannot participate in these elections.
The sentences of Bolsonaro and Braga Neto were handed down by five votes in favor and two against after two days of trial. Jair Bolsonaro still faces 11 more lawsuits in the TSE for various election-related crimes, in addition to several others pending in the STF, Federal Supreme Court, in this case for attacks on democracy and alleged encouragement of the coup attempt launched by in January. 8th place – Bolsonaro supporters, radicals who invaded and destroyed the court, Congress and the presidential palace.
Braga Neto and Bolsonaro have now been convicted of misusing celebrations of Brazil’s 200th anniversary of independence on September 7 last year to campaign for their candidacy in the October presidential election, which they ultimately lost. Bolsonaro, then a candidate for re-election, changed the location of the military ceremonies from the center of Rio de Janeiro to the Copacabana beach, naturally crowded on a sunny holiday, in order to look more favorable, and after the official parade he went down to the stage where he acted as President of the Republic. and went up to another, right next door, where he made an impassioned campaign speech, mixing the two acts.
Bolsonaro’s new sentence does not add up to the previous one, meaning that despite the fact that he has two different convictions, the former president remains incompetent only until 2030. But overturning the two convictions becomes more difficult as he will have to appeal one by one and wait for it to be heard, making his project of running for Brazil’s presidency again in 2026 virtually impossible.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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