Valdemar Costa Neto, president of the conservative Liberal Party (PL), political formation of President Jair Bolsonaro, has asked the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) to annul the votes cast by electronic ballot box during the last elections that gave the victory to Brazil’s president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
As specified by the president of the party, which supported Bolsonaro’s re-election, more than 279,300 voting machines presented a «malfunction», despite the fact that they have not presented evidence about it, as reported by the newspaper ‘Folha de Sao Paolo’.
Costa Neto also appears in a video assuring that all ballot boxes prior to 2020 have the same patrimonial number, which in practice would prevent the control and inspection of equipment during the elections, so the president of the PL thus gives validity to the theories of electoral fraud.
The president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Alexandre de Moraes, previously warned that protests and anti-democratic acts opposing the results of the elections in Brazil would be «fought with the law» and those responsible punished.
Since last October 30, thousands of followers of Jair Bolsonaro have been calling for military intervention in the main roads and highways of the country, in some regions even using minors as human shields.
Bolsonaro had to come out a few days later to disavow them in the face of increasing slogans about electoral fraud, while Lula da Silva, the winner of the elections, reproached the demonstrators for not even knowing why they were protesting and demanded «sportsmanship» to accept the results.
