The president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Minister Alexandre de Moraes, denied today (26) a request by the campaign for the re-election of President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) to investigate alleged irregularities in the broadcasting of electoral programs on radio stations.
Yesterday (25), the campaign presented to the TSE an audit carried out by outsourced companies, concluding that radio stations would not be broadcasting programs by the PL candidate during the free electoral time on the radio. According to the campaign, about 154,000 inserts were not aired in the second round.
In the decision, Moraes said that there are “errors and inconsistencies” in the data presented by the campaign.
“There is no doubt that the authors – who should have carried out their attribution of inspecting the radio and television insertions of their campaign – pointed to an alleged electoral fraud on the eve of the second round of the election without credible documentary basis, absent, therefore, any evidence minimum of proof, in clear affront to Law n. 9,504, of 1997, according to which claims and representations related to non-compliance must report facts, indicating evidence, indications and circumstances’, he said.
In the decision, the president of the TSE also determined that the Electoral Public Prosecutor’s Office investigates the possible commission of an electoral crime with “the purpose of disrupting the second round of the election in its last week”, in addition to the investigation of the alleged use of resources from the electoral fund to finance the audit.
