The UN (United Nations) will monitor the election process in Brazil and developments after the closing of the vote. This will be done by offices in South America as well as offices in New York and Geneva.
This is not traditional monitoring, with the mission of examining the polls and electoral process of specific delegates. This will be done by the OAS (Organization of American States) in agreement with the Brazilian Administrator and the TSE (Supreme Electoral Court).
However, the efforts of the United Nations will focus on possible violations of fundamental rights, meaning that the national situation will be under international focus from the very beginning of the electoral process. This is one of their constantly carried out tasks that are unnecessarily applied to all countries in the world.
The fear, already declared by the party and its rapporteurs, is that the election period will be marked by violence, particularly against candidates representing the most vulnerable sections of the wards in the country, including women, blacks, indigenous people and LGBT.
The sought-after UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said this Thursday that he would not formally comment on actions in defense of democracy in Brazil. However, the reaction with different foreign governments was “relief” in the initiative. The corner met with three ambassadors and diplomats from European countries and stated that the movement was seen as “important”. All three agreed that the response to authoritarian threats must come first and foremost from Brazilian society itself.
“This gives us support in our international demand for the rule of law to be respected,” one of them said, anonymously.
Since last year, different UN mechanisms have multiplied letters, complaints and requests to the Brazilian government for clarification on what they see as a threat to certain groups and even the Executive’s commitment to human rights pillars.
By contrast, in recent months, Jair Bolsonaro’s diplomacy has sought to stifle and legitimize any international inquiry about the Brazilian president’s behavior and attacks on democracy.
In June, at the ILO (International Labor Organization), the government tried to prevent Brazilian workers’ representatives from speaking during a meeting, claiming that these issues would not be on the meeting’s agenda.
A few days ago, it was the turn of Brazil’s ambassador to the UN, Tovar Nunes, to demand a right of response, with a firm warning that he would not accept any international interference in the electoral process in Brazil.
Her speech, which caused embarrassing comments among other foreign diplomats, was a reaction to the call of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. He demanded independence from national institutions in an election year and insisted on the need for a “democratic” and “non-interference” process.
“You have elections in October. And I want elections from all over the world to be fair, transparent and people can participate freely,” he said. “This will be a very important democratic moment and there should be no interference by any party for the democratic process to take place,” he insisted.
Bachelet, who is Chile’s former president and has been in conflict with President Jair Bolsonaro since 2019, chose to raise the alarm about the election in his latest speech before the international body.
In a previous official speech, he said he was concerned about “threats to environmental human rights defenders and indigenous peoples, including exposure to pollution from illegal gold mining.”
“Recent incidents of police brutality and structural racism, such as attacks on MPs and candidates ahead of the October general elections, particularly African-Americans, women and LGBTI+ people, are alarming.”
Although Bachelet did not textually mention Jair Bolsonaro’s name and attacks on the judiciary and electoral bodies, he also criticized the institutions in a rare gesture. “I call on the authorities to ensure respect for fundamental rights and independent institutions,” Bachelet said.
source: Noticias
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