The former Brazilian head of state still suffers from his maneuvers during the election year, where he tried to underestimate the legitimacy of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE).
The former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro He could be sanctioned with electoral disqualification until 2030 due to the trial that the Superior Electoral Court will initiate for having abused the power of the State to question, with fake news and without evidence, the Brazilian voting system before foreign authorities.
2022 was an electoral year for Brazil with a change of course after the victory of Lula Da Silva, leader of the Workers’ Party (PT). However, Bolsonaro is still suffering the consequences of the elections and their complaints to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), the entity in charge of organizing and coordinating the elections in Brazil throughout the territory.
Bolsonaro has 16 processes opened in electoral justice for crimes committed in the campaign to take advantage in the 2022 elections in which his re-election attempt was defeated by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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Bolsonaro’s complaint against the electoral court
The first of them, with a high probability of conviction, according to what he told telam a source from the electoral justice prosecutor’s office, It has to do with the complaint made at the Palacio de la Alvoradapresidential residence, that the electronic ballot boxes were not reliable.
At that time, Bolsonaro summoned more than one hundred foreign ambassadors and diplomats and filed a complaint alleging that the electoral system was against him, in an accusation that the prosecution takes as an abuse of power that affects the credibility of the democratic rule of law.
In a hypothetical damning scenario, Bolsonaro will suffer a disqualification of 8 years and could return to electoral politics in 2030, with 75 years.
The electoral court is made up of judges Alexandre de Moraes (president and also a Supreme Court judge who is following the cases against Bolsonaro), Cármen Lúcia, Kassio Nunes Marques, Benedito Gonçalves, Raul Araújo Filho, André Ramos and Floriano de Azevedo.
Source: Ambito
