The ambassadors present at the meeting this Monday with the Brazilian president rejected the lack of reliability of the electronic voting machines alleged by Jair Bolsonaro, considering it a failed electoral strategy, less than three months before the presidential elections.

After the event, a group of diplomats present pointed out to the press the lack of evidence to support these conspiracy theories spread from the Planalto Palace, seat of the Brazilian Government.

Some ambassadors present at the presentation led by Bolsonaro considered that the meeting aimed to put into practice a Trump strategywhich was adopted by former US President Donald Trump, who questioned the reliability of the US mail-in voting process when he realized he would lose re-election to current US head of state Joe Biden.

In a presentation marked by spelling and translation errors, Bolsonaro tried to agree with the ambassadors of a dozen countries, including the Portuguese Luís Faro Ramos. with supposed risks for democracy that could arise in the upcoming elections in October in Brazilin which former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva appears as the favorite and leads all the polls already released.

According to diplomats consulted by the newspaper “O Globo”, Bolsonaro did not present any evidence to support his theories and the constant attacks he carries out on electronic voting machines, which he accused of being opaque and vulnerableyes

Some of these ambassadors said they were concerned about democracy in Brazil. Among them, one indicated that he trusts that the country’s institutions work and can foster an understanding between Bolsonaro and the justice system so that the elections take place normally and the result is not questioned.

Other ambassadors with whom the local press was able to speak, on condition of anonymity, said that, in addition to the fact that there is nothing to support the theories about a possible computer attack on the electronic voting machines adopted in Brazil, Bolsonaro showed that his recurring problems with the judges of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) have a “strong political character“.

During that meeting, Bolsonaro tried to discredit the Brazilian electoral system and the judges of the courts in charge of guaranteeing the proper conduct of the elections, according to one of the diplomats present. For others, what drew the most attention were the attacks on former President Lula da Silva.

Ambassadors revealed that Bolsonaro questioned the idea of ​​those who defend the immediate recognition of the electoral results.

Dozens of ambassadors attended the meeting at the Palácio da Alvorada, in Brasilia. Among them was the Swiss ambassador in Brasilia, Pietro Lazzeri, the only one who preferred to comment on the meeting without remaining anonymous.

In a message posted on his Twitter profile, Lazzeri confirmed his presence at the meeting and indicated that he trusts and wishes the Brazilian people that the next elections “will be one more celebration of democracy and institutions“.

Today, at the Alvorada Palace, I participated in the meeting between the President of the Republic and the Heads of Diplomatic Mission. In the year of the Bicentennial of Brazil, we wish the Brazilian people that the next elections be another celebration of democracy and institutions ???????. pic.twitter.com/Bo5Ty5oYPC

— Pietro Lazzeri (@SwissAmbBrazil) July 18, 2022

Among the invited ambassadors were, in addition to the Portuguese Luís Faro Ramos, the Russian ambassador Alexei Labetsky, from France, Brigitte Collet, from Spain, Fernando García Casas, from Uruguay, Guillermo Valles Galmés, from Italy, Francesco Azzarello, from Morocco, Mohamed Louafa, from Palestine, Ibrahim Alzeben, and from Colombia, Dario Montoya, and the Chargé d’Affaires of the United States, Douglas Koneff.

The embassies of Japan and South Korea justified their absence citing other commitments, while the delegations of Argentina, China and the United Kingdom were not invited.

The opposition asks the Justice to investigate Bolsonaro for attacking elections in a meeting with ambassadors

Parliamentarians opposed to the Brazilian government asked this Tuesday that the Supreme Federal Court (STF) investigate the country’s president, Jair Bolsonaro. In the complaint filed with the STF, the parliamentarians affirm that Bolsonaro will have committed a crime against the democratic stateadministrative improbity, anticipated electoral propaganda and abuse of political and economic power.

Federal deputy Alencar Santana, from the Workers’ Party (PT), reported in a video uploaded to social networks that he filed a complaint requesting an investigation against the Brazilian head of state as a minority leader.

We entered the STF against the President, criminal news, due to the atrocities, the violence and the attacks he carried out yesterday in the meeting with the ambassadors,” said Santana.

The complaint, published in full by the parliamentarian, alleges that “the President of the Republic once again questioned the impartiality of the Brazilian electoral process, in an even more aggressive and shocking waywhich seriously exposes the image of Brazil on the international stage, which means a serious threat to the democratic rule of law, since it undermines popular sovereignty based on the possible outcome of the 2022 elections″.

“The position of President of the Republic cannot be used to subvert and attack the democratic order, create chaos and destabilize institutions“, he added.

There is also a description of the other alleged crimes that the Brazilian president may have committed in this meeting with diplomats, according to opposition deputies.