This was announced by the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Flávio Dino, on the social network Twitter, saying that messages emerge from this judgment, such as that “lying is not a legitimate tool to exercise a public function”.
Likewise, he stressed that politics is not subject to the law of the jungle, where the fittest can do anything.
“Democracy has won the toughest stress test in decades,” Dino finally remarked.
Similarly, the Labor Party appreciated that it was a “condemnation of the methods of the far right,” the “industrial dissemination of lies, threats to democracy, and the use of public power to persecute opponents and win disputes.” ,,Choice”.
As he cast his ballot, the rapporteur on the case, Minister Benedito Gonçalves, linked Bolsonaro to “violent speech and lies” that “compromised the credibility of electoral justice.”
By five votes in favor and two against, the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) disqualified the ex-soldier from holding public office until 2030 for holding a publicly televised meeting with foreign ambassadors on July 18, 2022 which he had attacked from outside Evidence of the electoral system and electronic ballot boxes.
At the meeting, held two and a half months after the election campaign, the ex-governor also gave a lecture to around 40 foreign diplomats with misinformation about the modern voting machines and proposed the involvement of the armed forces to fix system bugs.
He questioned the integrity of the voting method and the ministers of the TSE and the federal court.
Given the facts, the Trabalhista Democratic Party has launched electoral justice against Bolsonaro.
Under what is known as Clean Record Law, the TSE ruling takes effect immediately and the former head of state remains ineligible pending appeals review, even if such punishment does not remove his political rights to act on his behalf of allied politicians . in the 2024 local elections.
Regarding the court’s verdict, Bolsonaro explained that it was a “stab in the back” and that he recently received one in the abdomen, in reference to the attack he suffered in 2018.
He announced that he would explore with his lawyers the possibility of appealing not only to the TSE but also to the Supreme Court.
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