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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday invited dozens of diplomats to the presidential palace to file complaints about alleged vulnerabilities in the country’s electronic voting system, which the electoral government has already repeatedly discredited.
Once again, the far-right leader has presented no evidence of his claims, prompting complaints from members of the electoral authority and analysts who fear he is the word to reject the election results.
Bolsonaro faces an uphill battle to win a temporary mandate, and all the polls place him far from former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who governed Brazil between 2003 and 2010.
Bolsonaro’s speech to diplomats was broadcast on the state television channel for nearly an hour. Meanwhile, he cited a federal police report on an alleged hacking of electronic voting machines. Brazil’s electoral authority said in August 2021 that investigators had never given it any evidence of fraud. .
Brazil has been voting with an electronic formula since 1996 and the government has never found evidence of widespread fraud. Bolsonaro claimed he denied outright victory in the first round of the 2018 presidential election without the need for a runoff and at times said he had evidence. – which he never presented.
Bolsonaro also argued that Brazil’s electoral authority heeded the military’s recommendation about possible innovations in the voting system and reiterated the complaint of Supreme Court judges, some of whom are also members of the country’s electoral authority, suggesting they will favor da Silva.
“The others who owe them favors (da Silva and his Workers’ Party) do not need a transparent electoral system,” Bolsonaro told diplomats gathered at the assembly in Brasilia, the capital. they are announced, their heads of state will have to recognize them. “
Brazil’s presidential palace provided data on the number of diplomats who attended the rally.
Rodrigo Pacheco, president of Brazil’s Senate, said after Bolsonaro’s assembly that the country’s Congress, “whose members were elected with the existing electoral system, is obliged to tell the population that electronic voting machines will give the country a reliable result. “
Pacheco was elected to office with Bolsonaro’s support, but last week he met with his opponent da Silva in Brasilia.
The nonprofit Human Rights Watch said the assembly is evidence that Bolsonaro “continues his damaging crusade of disinformation about the electoral system. “
“The external network makes it clear that any attempt to undermine the democratic formula and the rule of law is unacceptable,” he said on Twitter.
In a separate event, Supreme Court Justice Luiz Edson Fachin, who lately heads Brazil’s electoral authority, told the local bar association in the state of Paraná that “there is an unacceptable electoral denial of a public figure. “
Fachin added that the user made “very serious allegations of fraud without any evidence. “
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