They vote to bar him from public office until 2030 over his conduct during last year’s fraught election. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The lead justice in the case, Benedito Goncalves, voted earlier this week to make the former president ineligible for eight years, saying he had “used the meeting with ambassadors to spread doubts and incite conspiracy theories.”“I have not attacked the voting system; I just showed its possible flaws,” Bolsonaro said in an interview with the Itatiaia radio station on Friday, before the judgment. “This trial doesn’t make any sense.
An avowed admirer of former US president Donald Trump, Bolsonaro was criticised internationally for his lacklustre stewardship of the Amazon rainforest, his laissez-faire approach to Covid-19 restrictions, and his evidence-free attacks on Brazil’s electoral system. The TSE trial is part of a broader reckoning in Brazil with the fallout from the country’s most painful election in a generation. While the former president faces electoral court scrutiny, many of his one-time allies are being questioned by lawmakers in a congressional probe into the Jan 8 riots.
Bolsonaro does not risk jail in the electoral case, although the 68-year-old is separately facing multiple criminal investigations that could still put him behind bars. REUTERS
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