Posted on 06/30/2023 3:42:42 PM PDT by fluorescence
Brazil's Supreme Electoral Court has voted 5-2 to bar ex-president Jair Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years.
Mr Bolsonaro was found guilty of abusing his power ahead of last year's presidential poll.
He had been accused of undermining Brazilian democracy by falsely claiming that the electronic ballots used were vulnerable to hacking and fraud.
Mr Bolsonaro's lawyers are expected to appeal against the verdict.
They have argued that his statements had no bearing on the election result.
The ban is backdated to 2 October 2022, when the presidential election took place.
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The case against the ex-president revolved around a speech he gave while he was still president in 2022.
On 18 July, he invited foreign diplomats to his residence in the capital, Brasilia, where he falsely claimed that the electronic voting machines used in Brazil were prone to being hacked and open to large-scale fraud.
Mr Bolsonaro maintained that he "simply explained how elections work in Brazil" and did not criticise or attack the electoral system.
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The Biden regime, which threatened Brazil before the election, is probably sad that the communists didn't throw him in a dungeon for 30 years.
When you see media use the term “falsely claiming” then you know it isn’t journalism. They should not be asserting a fact they cannot know to be true or false. They should simply state that “after asserting that the electronic voting system is vulnerable”. It may or may not be correct but the BBC doesn’t have proof either way.
You see the same language used against PDJT all the time.
Test run to see if it might work on trump
Electronic voting machines, with no paper backup, are vulnerable to fraud. I guess now I can’t run for President of Brazil. Brazil is just a little bit ahead of the US because they have managed to give the courts, abusing their power by making sensible free speech criminal and disqualifying, veto power over democratic elections. I’d say anyone who abuses free speech by saying a man can become a woman should be disqualified from running for office. Bring it on.
If you want to know which Western leaders are actual populist supporters of their own people, and not a psychop, look at who the Globohomo Regime tries to put in jail:
Trump, Berlusconi, Bolsonaro, Netanyahu
All others: fake conservatives.
Banana Republics galore these days!
Isn’t President Lulu already a convicted criminal?
He was, but the Brazilian supreme court let him out of prison and dismissed the charges, so that he could be installed again.
You see the same language used against PDJT all the time.
Not only is it unprofessional to report like this and biased, but it is snarky for the media to declare as fact, what is true and not true. Like, they own the press (media) and they therefore, are the sole arbiter of truth.
Brasilian democrats.
My first thought.
Right this is what they want for trump
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