Bolsonaro, who campaigned in the state of Minas Gerais, hosted a last-minute press conference in Palácio da Alvorada, in Brasília, after Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE) rejected Wednesday’s request to investigate alleged crimes of using electoral propaganda spaces. . on the radio.
“In certain places where I thought would go well and even win, we saw that we lost. The insertions that made or could have made the difference. There is no other factor that we can take into account at the moment,” said the candidate. , at the official headquarters of the Brazilian government’s presidency, which is harshly criticizing the electoral authorities.
Bolsonaro and his campaign claim that dozens of radio stations have stopped broadcasting their free advertising, which all candidates are entitled to, a conclusion secured by hiring two audits to investigate the case.
“[Houve] tens of thousands more insertions on the other side” that “unbalance the democratic process,” Bolsonaro underlined.
“My side was badly damaged and that was not of nowhe added.
According to the complaint, there are 154,085 ads that were not shown. According to Bolsonaro’s campaign, most of this alleged electoral fraud was recorded in the northeast of the country, a group of nine states whose populations overwhelmingly support Lula da Silva in Sunday’s presidential election.
“We will go to the last consequences, within the four rules of the Constitution, to enforce what our audits have found,” the Brazilian president emphasized at the conference.
“I repeat: the differentiation, the treatment, to the other candidate has been proven,” insinuating that presidential candidate Lula da Silva could be involved.
Minutes before this statement, TSE chairman Alexandre de Moraes indicated that the evidence presented by Bolsonaro’s campaign has no “credible documentary basis, and therefore no minimal indication of evidence”.
“The errors and inconsistencies presented in this small sample of eight radios are obvious,” he emphasized.
The electoral justice chief also said the Bolsonaro campaign, with these allegations, may have committed an electoral crime, “with the aim of” disrupting the second round of elections scheduled for Sunday.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the first round of the election with 48.4% of the vote and Jair Bolsonaro got 43.2%, so the two candidates will face each other in a runoff election scheduled for Sunday.
Source: DN
