On Sunday, the entire world witnessed the acts of violence in Brasilia, astonished, where tens of thousands of supporters of the far-right ex-president, Jair Bolsonaro, violently entered Parliament in a failed coup attempt against President Luiz Inácio Lula. da Silva, the current legitimately elected president.
The government of Luis Lacalle Pou and the political group that saw him born and grow up as a militant, the National Party (PN), condemned the events and called for respect for institutions and democracy.
But a group of the PN, the List 2050 “Together for the People” (JxP) does not seem to agree with the transparency verified by dozens of international observers and denounced an alleged fraud that has never been proven in the elections that gave victory -in the first and second instance- to Lula da Silva over the far-right, Jair Messias Bolsonaro.
«In defense of Brazilian democracy, we express our solidarity with the people of Brazil. The fight is in the streets”, begins by saying a statement from the group dated January 8, 2023.
“Our JxP group does not accept the government of Brazil as democratically elected. We believe that there was fraud in the 2022 elections”, he adds, and continues: “We do not want to be complicit in a socialist fraud”.
It concludes by requesting “that the Brazilian electoral Justice adopt measures to facilitate the inspection of the ballot boxes.”
This nationalist group is led by the controversial militant Romina Celeste Papasso Oliver, who shared the statement on her networks and commented: “The people rise up in Brazil. Excellent statement by @JXP_2050, the only real one without hypocrisy. With us the left will have its worst nightmare, for a reason they attack me so much, because our presence in the streets and our strong militancy hurts them.
The militant shared one of her well-known graffiti on public roads in which you can read “Brazil free of communism, Romina.”
Declaration of Together for the People: pic.twitter.com/klQschdxp0
— List 2050 (@JXP_2050) January 9, 2023
there was no fraud
The Brazilian Ministry of Defense presented a report last November on the electronic voting system used in the recent presidential elections, and according to the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), the body in charge of directing the elections in the country, there was no fraud or inconsistency in the electoral process. The TSE has said that it received the final report from the Ministry of Defense and that, like the other supervisory bodies, it did not point to the existence of any fraud or inconsistency in the electronic voting machines or in the 2022 electoral process. He added that the military’s suggestions to improve the system will be studied.
The TSE has pointed out that electronic voting machines are a source of national pride and that the 2022 elections demonstrate the efficiency, fairness and total transparency of the counting and computation of votes. The president of the TSE, Alexandre de Moraes, has signed a statement reaffirming this position.
Before the vote, President Jair Bolsonaro and some of his allies had made unsubstantiated allegations of electoral fraud and unfair treatment by the press. However, on October 30, former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva won the presidential election in a runoff against Bolsonaro, who, days after the results were announced, said he would abide by the Constitution, while his chief of staff said he would work with the incoming government on the transition of power, referring to Lula as “president-elect” Lula.
