With one of the tightest votes in Brazilian history and Jair Bolsonaro’s insistence on questioning the safety of electronic voting machines, the German government took to social media to make it clear that it would bet and trust the TSE (Supreme Electoral Court). country’s electoral system
In a message, German Ambassador to Brazil Heiko Thoms published a photo of TSE with an image of the electronic voting machine and the phrase “I Trust”. The broadcast took place when the data already pointed to a victory for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The decision to speed up the recognition of the ballot boxes was communicated to the two candidates’ campaigns even before the election. Brazilian civil society groups toured the capitals in Europe and North America for weeks, asking for this support to be given to TSE.
The aim of the international community is to stifle Bolsonaro’s attempts to promote an institutional break, by repeating his intention to denounce the same strategy of democracies to stop Donald Trump and his alleged electoral fraud against Joe Biden. At that moment, governments around the world rushed to congratulate the Democrat, taking away the Republicans’ chance to incite a coup.
source: Noticias
