In Brasilia, in the halls of government, it was registered as a provocation and not naive at all. Jair Bolsonaro, self-exiled in Orlando, Florida, USA, has released a new video damning with his complaint without evidence of a fraud in last October’s elections that PT leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won with a small difference of 1.8% of the vote.
The serious thing about this expedition is that it hardly happens days later anti-democratic attack against public buildings of the Brazilian government in the country’s capital and when there is the threat of a prolonged repetition of these episodes.
The video highlights the same arguments as their fans followers who insist that the military take power, overthrow the current president and replace Bolsonaro in the Planalto Palace.
The former president deleted the material three hours after it was released, with enough time to distribute it among his followers and journalistic portals. Here it was considered an encouragement to new mobilizations of that violent style against the new government.
“Rigged Election”
The video shared by Bolsonaro shows an excerpt from an interview with lawyer Felipe Giménez, from the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, in which he argues that “the elections were rigged” and that electronic voting “is not reliable”.
Electronic ballot boxes have been used in Brazil since the 1990s with no complaints raised so far Bolsonaro was first elected deputy and then president with that system. But he began to doubt it when the polls gave his opponent the lead.
The cut that has spread, with the logo of a social network that allows for video editingshow the legend “Lula was not elected by the peoplewas elected by the Federal Supreme Court and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal”.
“Lula was not elected by the Brazilian people. Lula was elected by the electoral service, by the ministers of the STF and by the ministers of the Higher Electoral Tribunal ”, says Giménez, almost copying the words of the complaints of the former president and his more radical followers.
He adds that if it really was a popular election, the people would have done it “power over the vote counting process”.
Is this the first expressed manifestation of that narrative of fraud after the weekend coup plotters and so on the argument of the Bolsonarist rioters. It is not clear whether the message was intended to encourage the new demonstration.
The former president He deleted the video but only three hours later to spread it and when it had already spread among his flock.
Before his hasty departure for Orlando, before the inauguration of the new government whose legitimacy he never acknowledged, the former president had published another message with the same allegations without evidence on a partial act of electoral justice in favor of Lula.
The fake of fraud like Trump
The former president had ordered military specialists to oversee the counting of the elections, and he had let it be known the system is manipulable and in this way to support the forgery of the fraud. Like Donald Trump at the time, he had asked for it to be used instead votes on the card. Justice did rejected
Accused by President Lula and his allies of instigating anti-democratic protests, Bolsonaro he tried to distance himself from the disaster noting that “these types of actions are not the norm”. However, he had defended the camps by calling for military intervention to overthrow Lula as a Democrat.
“Peaceful demonstrations, in the form of law, are part of democracy. However, looting and invasions of public buildings such as those that occurred today, as well as those practiced by the left in 2013 and 2017, are exceptions to the rule,” he wrote on the networks.
Bolsonaro went to Orlando a couple of days before Lula da Silva took office to avoid giving him the attributes of command, following the undemocratic behavior of Donald Trump with Joe Biden and Cristina Kirchner with Mauricio Macri.
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Source: Clarin
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