President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaroattacked this Monday at a meeting with ambassadors against electoral justice, which he accuses of not wanting transparency in presidential elections, and questioned without evidence the alleged vulnerability of electronic ballot boxes.
“We want to correct the shortcomings, we want transparency, real democracy. I am accused of a coup all the time (…) I interrogate earlier because we have time to solve the problem, with the participation of the Armed Forces,” the president said, accompanying his speech with a PowerPoint presentation on the electoral system.
Bolsonaro He spoke for almost an hour to dozens of ambassadors and diplomats from France and Spain, as well as from the European Union (EU), at Alvorada Palace in a meeting convened only to discuss the Brazilian electoral system.
Some embassies of Brazil’s main partners, such as Argentina, were not invited for unknown reasons.
Bolsonaro will take on leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on October 2, who is the favorite in the polls. | Font: VALERIA PACHECO / AFPTV / TV BRAZIL / AFP | Photographer: CLAUBER CAETANO / PRESIDENCE OF BRAZIL
The far right has made the e-voting system a target for attacks because of its perceived vulnerability, which he says could be used against him.
repeatedly Bolsonaro He stated, without providing evidence, that there were frauds in the 2014 and 2018 elections, when the president claims that he would have been elected in the first round.
“Time to Say Enough”
No explicit mention BolsonaroPresident of the Higher Electoral Court (TSE), Edson Fachinshortly thereafter, in a speech, said that the political debate is being “reduced by narratives that strain the social space” and that there is “an unacceptable denial of the election”.
“It’s time to say enough disinformation. It is also time to say no to authoritarian populism, which threatens to win the 1988 Constitution,” he added.
Bolsonaro will take on leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on October 2, who is the favorite in the polls.
“It’s a pity that Brazil doesn’t have a president who summons 50 ambassadors to talk about something that interests the country. (…) Instead he is lying against our democracy,” he tweeted. Lula shortly after Bolsonaro’s meeting with the ambassadors.
Members labor party (PT), and some analysts believe that the position Bolsonaro it is part of the strategy not to admit possible defeat and to influence the electoral process.
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The president on Monday referred to an investigation launched in 2018 federal policel (PF) one month after the vote in which he was elected president, to test a cyber attack on TSE’s digital systems.
The investigation has not yet been completed, but according to the TSE, the OF investigation has already revealed signs that the attack did not involve any manipulation of the election results and had little effect on the court’s internal system.
In a Senate hearing last week, Secretary of Defense Bolsonaro He proposed a “parallel vote” on Election Day with a second ballot box receiving paper votes to avoid “an election under the veil of no confidence”.
Brazil he adopted the electronic ballot box system in the 1996 municipal elections. Apart from offering more flexible paper voting results, no security issues have been confirmed so far.
(According to AFP)
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