The Electoral Corregidor General, Minister Benedito Gonçalves, released, this Thursday (1st) for trial one of the electoral judicial investigation actions (Aije) that has former president Jair Bolsonaro as a target. In the action, the PDT asks that the former president be declared ineligible. Aije is about a meeting organized by Bolsonaro at Palácio da Alvorada with dozens of ambassadors and diplomatic teams, in which he presented accusations against the electronic ballot box. The PDT alleges that the former president committed abuse of political and economic power by promoting the meeting and attacking the Brazilian electoral process with rumors, already denied by the Electoral Justice, without presenting evidence of what he said. In a preliminary way, the court determined the removal of images of the meeting from social networks and the official transmission of the event, as it understood that there was disclosure of untrue or out of context facts about the voting system. Upon releasing the case for trial, Gonçalves published a report in which he details all stages of the process, including the final arguments of the prosecution and defense. The rapporteur has not yet released his vote. It is now up to the president of the TSE, Minister Alexandre de Moraes, to schedule the analysis in plenary. There is no set deadline. Final allegations The meeting investigated by the TSE was held in July 2022, when Bolsonaro was a pre-candidate for re-election. His defense alleges that no irregularity occurred and that the meeting was an official event of the Presidency of the Republic, which followed all the formal procedures for its realization. Bolsonaro’s lawyers claimed that he only maintained an “open dialogue”, in which he “exposed, clearly, bluntly, in simple, easy and accessible language, on a public network, what his doubts would be and the points that – in his opinion – would have the potential to compromise the fairness of the electoral process”. The Electoral Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPE) understands that Bolsonaro should become ineligible, due to having abused political power and having misused the means of communication. This is because the meeting with ambassadors was broadcast and publicized by the state structure. According to the MPE, Bolsonaro delivered a speech with the aim of discrediting the electoral process in which he would be defeated. The seriousness is greater because the conduct was “in a period close to the elections, conveying notions that have already been demonstrated to be false, without the person represented having mentioned the official denials and explanations constantly given in the past”. The Electoral Attorney General’s Office (PGE) also argued that the gravity of the discredit in the electoral process, as disseminated by Bolsonaro, could be verified in the coup acts of January 8, when “people convinced that the elections had been rigged” invaded and vandalized the headquarters of the Three Powers of the Republic. Draft of the coup Bolsonaro’s defense stated that it was not possible to make any connection between the meeting with ambassadors and the events of January 8, with no connection between the episodes. The lawyers also defended the annulment of evidence inserted in the process with authorization from Gonçalves, among them the so-called draft of the coup, an apocryphal document found in the house of former Minister of Justice Anderson Gomes. The text is a kind of decree of intervention in the Electoral Justice, and was found in the context of investigations into anti-democratic acts. The rapporteur decided to keep the draft as evidence in the process, claiming that there was a possible connection with the investigations. *Collaborated by André Richter
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