The former president, accused of launching “attacks against the voting system in 2022 when he was still in power.” Electoral Public Ministry, after a request from the PDT, requests loss of political rights for 8 years”
The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) of Brazil scheduled for June 22 the start of the trial that could leave former President Jair Bolsonaro ineligible.
In a statement released on Monday night (early Tuesday morning in Lisbon), the TSE announced the schedule of the action filed by the Democratic Labor Party (PDT) and supported by the Prosecutor against Bolsonaro and his vice-presidential candidate, General Walter Braga Netto.
The Electoral Judicial Investigation Action, which “discusses the practice of abuse of political power and misuse of the media, it will begin in plenary session on June 22,” the court explained.
Jair Bolsonaro is being accused of having launched attacks against the voting system in 2022when he was still President, and the Electoral Public Ministry, at the request of the PDT, declared itself in favor of the loss of political rights for eight years.
According to the PDT, during a meeting with some 40 foreign ambassadors, on July 18, 2022, “the then President of the Republic and candidate for re-election questioned —without any evidence and with false arguments, distorted and already refuted by the TSE— the fairness of the Brazilian electoral process”, reads the same note.
In this speech to the ambassadors, in the middle of the electoral campaign, Bolsonaro insisted that the 2018 elections, which he won in the second round, “they were not totally transparent” and he also cited alleged irregularities that occurred in 2014, when then-president Dilma Rousseff was re-elected.
In addition to the cases he faces in the TSE, the retired Army captain, who returned to Brazil at the end of March from the United States, is being investigated in a dozen cases in common justice and in another five in the Federal Supreme Court. .
One of them investigates the assault of thousands of Bolsonaro supporters on the headquarters of the three powers, in Brasilia, on January 8, allegedly with the intention of forcing a coup against current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The Brazilian Congress also created a Mixed Parliamentary Investigation Commission that will investigate the Coup attempt and acts of vandalism by Bolsonaro supporters on January 8.
Brazilian Congress opens investigation into Bolsonaro attacks on January 8
Source: Observadora
