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Jair Bolsonaro, president of Brazil.
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The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, intensified this Saturday his attacks on the Judiciary and reaffirmed his attacks on the judiciary. that “only God” He can remove him from power, when there are four months and twelve days left before the elections in which he will seek a vote. a re-election that seems complicated, according to the polls.
“Together, with faith, we will achieve our goals. It is a mission that I have and only God gets me out of that (presidential) chair”, he pointed out. The president before hundreds of evangelical faithful during the so-called ‘March for Jesus’, in the city of Curitiba (south).
In a pre-campaign climate, the far-right leader said that it is his “duty” to as head of the Executive, make sure that everyone who acts “outside” of what the Constitution marks, “come within it”.
“Our army is the Brazilian people,” Bolsonaro, second in voting intentions behind former progressive president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with a view to the presidential elections on October 2.
Before, he participated in a meeting with evangelical leaders, where he returned to raise the tone against the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) and the Supreme Court, which is investigating him and his allies for misinforming about covid-19 and the elections, and for discrediting democratic institutions.
“I am here the one that most responds to processes and investigations in the Supreme Court, contrary to the opinion of the Public Ministry. what? want with that? Do they want to steal our freedom, our greatest good? rhetorically.
RISING TENSION
The serious institutional tensions between Bolsonaro and the Judiciary have dragged on since 2020, when The Supreme Court gave autonomy to states and municipalities to adopt social isolation measures to combat the pandemic, in the face of the denialism of the central government.
In 2021 they were aggravated by the participation of the president in protests calling for a “military intervention” and the “close” Congress, and this year they continue with the serious attacks by the retired Army captain on the current electoral system.
Without evidence, Bolsonaro has been sowing suspicion about the electronic ballot boxes that Brazil has used in its elections since 1996 and whose security has always been attested by international observers.
retrieve the paper vote, but it was found with the ‘not’ of Parliament, and now he wants the Armed Forces to carry out a count of the votes parallel to that of the TSE, the body responsible for the elections, and for an external company to carry out an “audit” of the elections. prior to the polls.
“I can’t tell that a machine is not working properly? (…) We cannot allow this to continue happening. We want transparency”, he demanded. Bolsonaro this Saturday.
The electoral court has already that those who take care of the elections are “the unarmed forces”, that is, the civilian population, and he warned that Brazil will not allow “authoritarian adventures”. Along the same lines, the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco, stated: this week that he “no question” about the “integrity” of the polls.
But as the elections approach, the president redoubles his offensive, especially against Alexandre de Moraes, the Supreme Court magistrate -one of the eleven- who supervises open investigations into Bolsonaro and who in August will assume the presidency of the TSE.
Bolsonaro accused on Wednesday de Moraes for behaving “all the time” as “the leader of a leftist and opposition party,” and denounced him as before the Supreme Court and the Prosecutor’s Office for an alleged crime of “abuse of authority”.
The Supreme Court has already rejected that lawsuit and the Attorney General, which he is in charge of. the jurist Augusto Aras, appointed by Bolsonaro, has yet to rule on the matter.
THE BOLSONARO CLAN WARNS OF “INSTABILITY”
In the midst of these clashes, Bolsonaro warned on Monday of the possibility of “disturbed elections”, if there is a suspicion that “they were not clean”, in a speech that he recalled. former US president Donald Trump, whom he supported; when he tried avoid the victory of Joe Biden.
One of his sons, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, also spoke out. This week in the same direction and, in an interview with the SBT channel, he warned that Brazil is “in danger” to face “instability”, “if the electoral process takes place with that cloak of mistrust”, about what he did not offer. details.
He also assured have in their possession “internal” surveys who predict a victory for their father “in the first round”, although all the polls published to date and registered in the TSE predict a comfortable victory for Lula, to whom they grant around 45% of the support, against to the 30% that Bolsonaro would obtain.