The ruling, if it survives a planned Supreme Court appeal, means #Bolsonaro, 68, won’t be able to run for president until the 2030 election, when he’ll be 75. It’s the first time in the court’s 90-year history that it has applied the ban to a former president.
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As president, #Bolsonaro, the “Trump of the Tropics” repeatedly asserted w/o evidence that the voting systems in Latin America’s largest country were vulnerable to fraud. W/the vote of Judge Cármen Lúcia Friday afternoon, the 7-member Superior Electoral Court reached a majority to convict the #RightWing populist of #AbuseOfPower for undermining faith in the country’s young #democracy.
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Court votes to bar #Bolsonaro from running for office
#Brazil’s top #elections court voted Fri to bar Jair Bolsonaro from running for office for 8 yrs — a period that covers the next presidential election — for making what members of the panel said were claims he knew to be false about the integrity of the country’s voting systems.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/30/bolsonaro-barred-running-election-brazil/
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