Brazil’s electoral court voted to ban Jair Bolsonaro from office for eight years for making false claims about last year’s election, a ruling that could effectively end the right-wing former president’s political career. | ManilaBulletin
Five of the court’s seven judges agreed Friday that Bolsonaro had abused the powers of his office by using a meeting with foreign ambassadors to cast doubt on the country’s electronic voting system just months before his defeat to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The decision will render him ineligible to hold or seek office until 2030, when he will be 75, and rule him out of the next presidential election three years from now.
"Everyone aligned with him will begin to look for alternatives,” said Carlos Melo, a political scientist at Insper, a university in Sao Paulo. “What begins today is an internal dispute over the leadership of Bolsonarismo. Who will take Bolsonaro’s place? Who will contest the election against President Lula in 2026?”
Bolsonaro has denied wrongdoing. He insists that the July 2022 meeting with ambassadors was a matter of foreign policy that fell within the powers of the presidency, and that he was expressing potential concerns about the election. Lula was barred from running in the 2018 election after his conviction on corruption charges, opening the door for Bolsonaro’s rise to the presidency. The leftist served 580 days in prison before the Supreme Court annulled the convictions on grounds that the lower court that had tried him lacked jurisdiction. That ruling allowed Lula to complete his own improbable political resurrection last year.
“Freedom of expression is not freedom of aggression,” Moraes, the electoral court’s chief justice, said. “Freedom of expression is not consecration of disinformation, it’s not attacks on democracy.”Outside of the electoral court, Bolsonaro is also under investigation for potential crimes that occurred during and after his presidency.
In recent days, however, Bolsonaro has talked openly about passing the torch. Eduardo Bolsonaro and Flavio Bolsonaro, two of his sons, are already members of congress and the senate, respectively. This week, Bolsonaro suggested that his wife, Michelle, could run for congress or president in 2026.
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