In a letter to several leading international organizations this Tuesday, the Association of Judges of Democracy (AJD) condemned President Jair Bolsonaro’s attacks on national institutions and asked foreigners to monitor the situation in Brazil, including observers sent to the country. for the October elections.
The Association, which was formed in the 1990s and today with nearly 400 judges, says the purpose of the letter is to “condemn Bolsonaro (Bolsonaro) and warn countries against multilateral organizations of practices incompatible with the defense of democracy as a global movement.”
The document, obtained exclusively by UOL, was handed over to the UN Secretary-General, the UN Global Human Rights Office in Geneva, OAS Commissioner for Human Rights Defenders and Justice Operators Joel Hernandez and the President of the Human Rights Commission for the Americas. , Julissa Mantilla Falcon.
“The AJD understands that in serious democratic crisis situations, such as the crisis presented, judges not only have the fundamental right to freedom of expression, but also have a duty to assert themselves to defend democracy,” they justify.
In the document, the party warns that the president is “trying, without any other concealment, to advance the freedom to vote, by creating all sorts of incidents with Supreme Court justices in his campaign to tarnish the corporate and personal reputation of his members.” as a way of promoting the instability that favors it in the face of the militancy that supports it”.
His violations for the group are numerous. “The current president of Brazil, apart from breaking Articles 1, 23, I, which imposes his duty to strive for democratic institutions and rites, violates all national laws that determine the legal methods and forms of voting that count votes almost forever in Brazil. Thirty years ( networked electronic voting machines) are trying to maintain themselves in power like their former idols,” he emphasizes.
The text reminds that Bolsonaro “did not hide from anyone that he was a supporter of dictatorships, torture and torturers”. “They idolize the late Admiral Brilhante Ustra, one of the most brutal executioners of the Brazilian civil/military dictatorship established on March 31, 1964, officially recognized and routinely respected,” they say.
Faced with the scenario described as an “institutional anomaly”, the judges urged international organizations to “carefully monitor the electoral and pre-election political movements in Brazil from now on, preferably with the presence of observers on national territory, as well as the current president’s political and political cooperation with Brazil in case of a resurgence of coup intentions.” reflects the fate of commercial relations”.
For the October elections, organizations such as the OAS were prepared to send a team to the country under an agreement already in place. However, Bolsonaro’s government stalled its attempt to invite the European Union to monitor the electoral process.
source: Noticias
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