Brazil’s opposition disputes election results
2022.11.22 15:07
Brazil’s opposition disputes election results
Budrigannews.com – According to a complaint filed with the country’s federal electoral court (TSE) claiming that votes from certain electronic voting machines should be “invalidated,” Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has challenged his election defeat to his leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
As Lula’s victory has been acknowledged by leading Brazilian politicians and international allies and ratified by the TSE, Bolsonaro’s claim appears unlikely to be successful.However, a small but fervent protest movement that has so far refused to accept the outcome could be fueled by it.
The complaint was filed by Bolsonaro’s right-wing electoral coalition, which claimed that older voting machines showed “signs of irreparable… malfunction.”
In their complaint, Bolsonaro allies stated that “there were signs of serious failures that generate uncertainties and make it impossible to validate the results generated” in several older models of the voting machines.Consequently, they demanded that those models’ votes be “invalidated.”
For years, Bolsonaro, a far-right former army captain, has claimed without supporting evidence that the country’s electronic voting system is susceptible to fraud.
After news of the electoral complaint, Brazil’s currency lost 1.5% against the US dollar in afternoon trading.
