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Bolsonaro Banned From Politics for Eight Years
According to a June 30 report by CNN, a seven-judge panel in Brazil has prohibited former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, the leader of the center-right Liberal Party, from running for office until 2030, thereby killing his chances of a 2026 challenge to President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva of the left-wing Workers’ Party, to whom Bolsonaro lost in 2022 by the narrowest margin in decades.
Bolsonaro claimed that the election system in that race was compromised by hackers, and that voting machines automatically filled out ballots for the Workers’ Party. In July 2022, Bolsonaro repeated to foreign ambassadors his claims of voter fraud, and this prompted another left-wing party, the Democratic Labor Party, to file a lawsuit against him. The party called on the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to ban Bolsonaro from running again, which the court did on June 30.
“This is an injustice against me…. Show me something concrete I have done against democracy. Perhaps my crime was doing the right thing for four years,” Bolsonaro said of the TSE’s ruling. He said he will appeal the decision, but even if he succeeds, there are more cases against him pending at the TSE, any one of which could result in another ban.
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