The president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Minister Alexandre de Moraes, thanked the voters who voted in the first round today (27) and encouraged everyone to return to the polls in the second round, which takes place next Sunday (30).
The minister also thanked the city halls of the 27 capitals after all confirmed the free public transport in the second round. In the first round, only 12 capitals had a free pass, and the abstention rate was 20.89%, equivalent to about 32.7 million voters.
“We will reduce this abstention and free public transport will help. The more public transport and the more voters attend, the more democracy,” said Moraes as he closed the last plenary session of the TSE before the vote on Sunday.
He also encouraged male and female voters not to be intimidated by threats and asked them to report cases of electoral harassment. “We cannot allow voters to be harassed, coerced, or threatened, and it is even electoral harassment for employers to threaten their employees,” said Moraes.
According to data from the Public Ministry of Labor (MPT), complaints of electoral harassment in companies exploded during the second round campaign, reaching 1,572 cases so far, compared to only 61 registered in the first round.
“I ask all voters, as they did in the first round, to appear calmly, with peace, to choose their candidates, choose freely”, appealed Moraes.
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Minister Alexandre de Moraes also reaffirmed this Thursday that it is not up to the Electoral Court to inspect whether radio stations across the country comply with electoral legislation and broadcast as they should the mandatory insertions with the propaganda of each candidate.
“As we all know, it is not, never was, and will continue not to be the responsibility of the TSE to distribute television and radio media and monitor radio by radio throughout the country if the radios are broadcasting the candidates’ insertions. All parties in good faith know that. , all candidates in good faith know,” said Moraes.
Yesterday (26), the minister denied following up on a petition in which the campaign of President Jair Bolsonaro, candidate for reelection, claimed to have been harmed by radio stations in the North and Northeast regions, which would not have aired hundreds of his mandatory insertions.
Just last night, Bolsonaro said he would appeal Moraes’ decision. “For our part, we will go to the last consequences, within the four lines of the Constitution, to enforce what our audits have found. Really, a huge imbalance in terms of insertions. This of course interferes with the number of votes at the end of the line” , said the candidate.
