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Brazil: open war between Bolsonaro and the Supreme Court

2021-08-08T16:01:47.070Z


Mistreated in the polls, criticized for his management of the pandemic, the president calls into question the electoral system and the highest courts responsible for ensuring the regularity of votes.


"Fools",

"dictators of the toga" ...

Jair Bolsonaro no longer holds his blows against the magistrates of the two highest courts of Brazil - the Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court -, who oppose his attempt to change the way whose Brazilians will vote in the 2022 presidential election.

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Almost every day, the Brazilian president questions


- without any proof - the reliability of electronic voting, in force since 1996, and demands a return to a form of paper ballot.

His fury intensified last Thursday when Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered an investigation into the dissemination of

"false information"

on the voting system.

The Supreme Court will have to verify whether President Bolsonaro is guilty, among other things, of

"insult, defamation and slanderous denunciation".

Jair Bolsonaro accused the magistrate of

"intimidation"

and threatened him, enigmatically but full of innuendo:

"His time will come."

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Source: lefigaro

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