In a statement to the TSE, Torres said that the PF “never” detected fraud in the ballot boxes

Judgment

Bolsonaro’s former Minister of Justice gave testimony to the TSE in an action that investigates abuse of political power against the former president

Brasilia DF) – The live cited by Minister Benedito Gonçalves as “sequence of means to spread doubts about the electoral system” in the trial of Jair Bolsonaro (PL), at the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), was also the subject of testimony by former Minister of Justice Anderson Torres. Torres’ hearing took place within the Electoral Judicial Investigation Action (Aije), which may leave the former president ineligible.

During the instruction process, where witnesses are heard and evidence is collected, Torres was asked about the live held in 2021, in which confidential data was leaked about an alleged hacker attack on the TSE. To the TSE, the former minister replied that Federal Police experts “They never claimed there was fraud there, or anything to that effect. This is not a statement made by the experts, much less ours. What we did was read the questions and considerations made by them”, said in confidential testimony.

In this specific broadcast, Bolsonaro, federal deputy Filipe Barros (PL) and Anderson Torres spoke. From the Alvorada Palace, several accusations were made about voter fraud, as well as unfounded criticism of the Brazilian electoral system.

Torres, however, told the TSE that he only read a summary of what he knew about public documents from the Federal Police and that he never had access to any documentation about “hacker attack”. “The excerpts I selected there to be able to speak are from PF experts. But it was put by them as an improvement of the electoral system”completed Torres in his testimony.

Rapporteur’s vote

During the PDT action trial session, which accuses Jair Bolsonaro (PL) of abuse of power and misuse of the media, the case rapporteur, Minister Benedito Gonçalves, cited the 2021 live as a complement to the meeting held by the former -president with ambassadors, in July 2022.

The case rapporteur considered that “the 2021 lives were successful in their pragmatic proposal to cultivate the feeling that a serious threat was looming over the 2022 elections and that this threat came from the TSE. [Esse] conspiracyism remained latent and was easily triggered in the election year”said Goncalves.

For him, the live, which was also included in Aije, is part of a series of means to spread doubts about the electoral system.

“At the meeting with heads of diplomatic missions, the investigator resumed the epic of attacks on the electronic voting system without evidence, adding another chapter to the saga: the last attempt by the Armed Forces to present supposed solutions to avoid fraud in the imminent election”

declared the case rapporteur.

The investigation into the leak of confidential data about a hacker attack was included in Aije, which investigates alleged abuse of power and misuse of the media by Bolsonaro, in a meeting with ambassadors, held in July 2022.

Gonçalves also reiterated that freedom of expression does not protect the accused of “bringing false information regarding a police investigation or to fabricate a conspiracy theory about electoral fraud involving ministers and TSE employees”.

Judgment at the TSE

In the process on trial, the Democratic Labor Party (PDT) asks the TSE to declare Jair Bolsonaro and Walter Souza Braga Netto, candidates for the Presidency of the Republic in 2022, ineligible. The party accuses them of abuse of political power and misuse of the media during a meeting of the then president, Jair Bolsonaro (PL), with foreign ambassadors, at Palácio da Alvorada, on July 18, 2022.

According to the party, the former president attacked, at the event, the TSE and STF Courts and stated, again without presenting any evidence, that the results of the 2022 general elections proclaimed by the Electoral Justice would not be reliable.

In addition, the PDT also claims that there was a violation of the principle of isonomy between the candidacies, configuring an abuse of political power the fact that the meeting took place at the official residence of the Presidency of the Republic and was organized through the official apparatus of the Planalto Palace. and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

*With information from Metrópoles

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