The investigating judge of the trial of Jair Bolsonaro found the former Brazilian president guilty of abuse of power in the 2022 elections and voted to disqualify him for 8 years, at the second hearing of the trial held Tuesday at the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE).
“It is not possible to turn a blind eye to the anti-democratic effects of violent speeches and falsehoods that jeopardize the credibility of electoral justice,” confirmed magistrate Benedito Gonçalves in the summary reading of his vote, totaling 382 pages.
The central point of the case is a meeting for which Bolsonaro convened fifty foreign ambassadors at the official residence of the presidency on July 18, 2022 to seriously disqualify the electoral system and accuse the judiciary of maneuvering in favor of current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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Source: El heraldo
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