Brazil’s elections “serve as a model for the world,” the US embassy in Brazil said on Tuesday, a day after President Jair Bolsonaro questioned Brazil’s electoral system.
“Brazil’s elections, time-tested by the electoral system and democratic institutions, serve as a model for nations in the hemisphere and around the world,” the US embassy said in a statement.
On Monday, during a meeting with dozens of ambassadors in Brazil, and three months before the presidential elections, the Brazilian head of state said he wanted to “correct the defects” of the electoral system, in a new attack on the electronic voting system. .
For months, Bolsonaro has fueled the idea that voting could be fraudulent due to the use of electronic voting machines, a method introduced in the country in 1996.
“The United States has confidence in the strength of Brazil’s democratic institutions. The country has a solid history of free and fair elections, with transparency and high levels of participation”, the embassy reinforced.
Bolsonaro’s statements provoked a strong reaction from the president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Edson Fachin, who said that “it is time to say enough to disinformation and authoritarian populism that questions the 1988 Constitution.”
Bolsonaro, who for several months has been at open war with the TSE and, more precisely, with Fachin, argued that, along with electronic voting machines, ballots should also be used to compare results and guarantee the reliability of the process. although this suggestion was categorically rejected by parliament.
In recent months, in addition to insisting that the country’s electronic voting system is not reliable, Bolsonaro has intensified attacks on the magistrates of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), has said that he will not respect certain judicial decisions and has repeatedly called for the military participation in the vote count.
In recent times there has also been a greater number of voices from analysts, institutions and organizations that seek to call attention to the fact of Jair Bolsonaro to be to inflame based on support and create bases for ‘an invasion of the Capitol’, as happened in the United States Joined.
Source: TSF
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