The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) decided, this Tuesday (20), to uphold the conviction of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro’s campaign to pay a fine of R$90,000 for publishing a video on the internet to insinuate that the then candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would be in favor of abortion. The recording was aired during last year’s elections. In December 2022, Bolsonaro’s campaign was fined after the determination of Minister Maria Claudia Bucchianeri, who issued an individual decision after a preliminary injunction made by Lula’s campaign. At the time, the lawyers claimed that internet boosting was used to make irregular electoral propaganda to convey false information that Lula would be “against life, the family and the Christian religion”. After the decision, the case returned to be judged definitively in today’s session. By the score of 7 votes to 1, the court maintained the application of the fine. In May, in another decision involving fake news against Lula, the TSE sentenced Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) to pay a fine of R$5,000 for accusing the president of having “a relationship with the devil”. The ministers understood that the video was edited to damage the image of the then candidate.
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