Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the favorite presidential candidate in the polls, affirmed that the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, his electoral rival, “has his days numbered” and that he seeks to sow doubts about the electoral process because he is afraid of ” finish prisoner” in case of being defeated.
“Bolsonaro, your days are numbered. It doesn’t do you any good to say you don’t trust the polls. What you are afraid of is losing the elections and ending up in jail,” Lula said in a speech Monday night in Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas Gerais, the second largest electoral district in Brazil, as part of his first turns as a candidate for the elections of October 2.
Lula, president between 2003 and 2010, was proclaimed last Saturday presidential candidate by the Workers’ Party accompanied in the formula as vice by the ex-governor of São Paulo Geraldo Alckmin, of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB).
The former trade unionist began in Belo Horizonte the previous tour prior to registering, in August, before the Superior Electoral Court, with which the campaign will officially begin.
Lula said that Bolsonaro is a representative of “hate, ignorance, fascism and violence” and charged against the far-right’s criticism of the electoral system, suspicions based on fake news that became an investigation carried out by judge Alexandre de Moraes in the Supreme Federal Court (STF) for an attack against the Constitution.
This Tuesday, the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo exclusively published on its front page a report by the Federal Police at the request of the STF, the Supreme Court, on how the Executive Branch acts to undermine the credibility of the electronic ballot box system that has been in force in Brazil since 1996 without any type of suspicion of fraud in its implementation.
According to the police report, the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin), the Minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet, retired General Augusto Heleno, and the Minister Secretary of Government, retired General Luiz Ramos have used public institutions since 2019 to seek information against the polls. and generate, based on false information, suspicions about the electoral system.
Lula’s campaign coordinator, former minister Aloizio Mercadante, said last March that he feared that Bolsonaro’s supporters would not accept the election results. and embark on violent protests similar to the invasion of the United States Congress by supporters of former President Donald Trump after he denounced fraud in his defeat against President Joe Biden.
The case of the official action against the electoral system is being investigated by Judge Moraes of the Supreme Court in a file called “digital militias” linked to the financing of movements on the networks to launch lies and attacks on the constitutional system.
Bolsonaro is in a kind of war against Moraes after the magistrate -and the rest of the court- sentenced the far-right deputy Daniel Silveira to eight years in prison for inciting a coup d’état.a former Rio de Janeiro police officer who was pardoned 24 hours later by the head of state for disagreeing with the sentence.
