The Liberal Party, evoking “dysfunctions”, asks the Superior Electoral Court the invalidation of votes from more than 280,000 electronic urns.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
The party of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro asked, Tuesday, November 22, at the Electoral Higher Court (TSE) the cancellation of votes from more than 280,000 electronic urns, arguing that “dysfunctions” would have prevented his re -election against Lula.
“We are asking for the invalidation of votes from electronic ballot boxes for which insurmountable dysfunctions have been uncovered, and to draw the legal consequences for the results of the second round”, on October 30, can be read in the complaint filed by the Liberal Party (PL).
This training, which has obtained the greatest number of deputies and senators at the end of the legislative elections, believes that the “malfunction” of five models of urns “calls into question the transparency of the electoral process”. The PL argues that these dysfunctions have been demonstrated in an audit report commanded by the party.
According to the PL lawyer, more than 280,000 electronic urns used during the ballot are one of these five models in question.
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According to the PL count, the cancellation of votes from these ballot boxes would give the victory to Jair Bolsonaro with 51.05 % of the votes, practically the opposite of the official result (50.9 % for Lula, 49, 1 % for the outgoing president).
The president of the TSE, Alexandre de Moraes, responded to the complaint explaining that these models of urns had been used not only in the second round, but also in the first, on October 2. He therefore requests that the complaint “concerns the two laps”, under penalty of being rejected without being analyzed.
But a cancellation of some of the votes obtained on October 2 would also have an impact on the legislative elections, which took place on the same day, on the same ballot boxes. This could jeopardize the election of many parliamentarians of PL.
Jair Bolsonaro has practically disappeared from public life for more than three weeks, after the announcement of his defeat against the ex-left president Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva (2003-2010). He only came out of his silence two days later, without explicitly recognizing his defeat, and evoking the “feeling of injustice” of his supporters who demonstrated before barracks to claim military intervention.