Bolsonaro is the 3rd former president of the Republic to become ineligible

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TSE formed majority to make Bolsonaro ineligible after crime against democracy

Brasilia DF) – Former President Jair Bolsonaro is ineligible for the next eight years. The decision is by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), which formed a majority and condemned him for attacking the credibility of the elections in Brazil. The score was 5 to 2, with the last vote being that of the President of the Court, Alexandre de Moraes. Bolsonaro is the third president to remain in this condition.

Summary

• Two other presidents have already become ineligible: Lula and Fernando Collor de Mello;
• In Lula’s case, the decision was revoked in 2021;
• TSE formed a majority to make Bolsonaro ineligible after a crime against democracy.

Minister Cármen Lúcia, of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), followed this Friday, 30, the vote of the rapporteur, Minister Benedito Gonçalves, and decided to condemn the former president for abuse of power for attacks on electronic ballot boxes before the elections in 2022, in which he was defeated by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).

In addition to Bolsonaro, Lula was also considered ineligible, but the decision was reversed. In 2018, the president’s candidacy was rejected by the TSE based on the Clean Record Law. The status changed in 2021, with the annulment of Operation Lava Jato convictions against the former metallurgist.

Another president considered ineligible was Fernando Collor de Mello, accused of a crime of responsibility for being involved in a corruption scheme with former treasurer Paulo César Farias. Collor also left the country in a serious economic situation after In addition to the corruption scandals, the political situation was aggravated by the economic crisis after the confiscation of savings. The Senate voted him ineligible for eight years.

Understand Bolsonaro’s condemnation

An Electoral Judicial Investigation Action (Aije), raised by the PDT, requests that the TSE declare ineligible the former president and Walter Souza Braga Netto, candidate for vice on the ticket competing for re-election to the Presidency of the Republic in 2022. commit abuse of political power and misuse of the media, during President Jair Bolsonaro’s meeting with foreign ambassadors, at Palácio da Alvorada, on July 18, 2022.

Ineligibility leaves Bolsonaro out of the 2024, 2026 and 2028 elections, and can only run in 2030.

*With information from IstoÉ

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