The “bad faith” of outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro’s political party has been certified. The Liberal Party (PL) was fined about $4.2 million by Brazil’s electoral commission on Wednesday for filing a complaint seeking a review of the presidential election result in which Lula won.
According to a speech published on the company’s website, Alexandre de Moraes, president of the High Electoral Court (TSE), underlined the “absence of evidence and circumstances justifying the establishment of an extraordinary verification”. Presidential election.
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Leftist candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the second round of the presidential election on October 30 with a narrow majority of 50.9%, against 49.1% for the far-right head of state.
PL’s arguments were deemed “absolutely false”.
PL said on Tuesday that “votes from electronic ballot boxes were invalidated, for which intractable malfunctions were brought to light, and legal consequences should be drawn for the results of the second round”. The formation considered that the “malpractice” of five samples of ballot boxes “calls into question the transparency of the electoral process”. These ballot boxes date back to 2020 and support PL.
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Alexandre de Moraes said the arguments presented were “absolutely false” and the request “was made inappropriately with the intention of openly offending the democratic rule of law and encouraging criminal and anti-democratic movements”. These movements have manifested themselves in “serious threats and violence” during roadblocks across the country.
After Lula’s victory, supporters of Jair Bolsonaro staged hundreds of sieges that lasted for days and sometimes resulted in clashes with security forces.
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