Fifty-one percent of Brazilians believe that former president Jair Bolsonaro should be banned from the next elections due to his attacks on electronic ballot boxes and the voting system, according to the latest survey by Datafolha, a company of the Folha media group.
For most respondents, Bolsonaro losing his political rights for his smear campaigns against the Brazilian electoral system, even before taking office in 2019, is the most correct punishment, especially in the opinion of women and sectors with fewer economic resources.
However, the percentage of those who are against Bolsonaro being disqualified remains high, 45 percent are not in favor of this measure, especially among the wealthier sectors.
On the other hand, 4 percent chose not to answer. The survey was conducted among 2,028 people over 16 years of age and from 126 different municipalities, between March 29 and 30, reports the newspaper ‘O Globo’.
The unfounded accusations against the electoral system have been a constant in recent years, although criticism intensified with the release of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who recovered his political rights after the Justice revealed malpractice in the judicial processes against him.
After Easter, the plenary of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) is scheduled to meet to decide on the possible disqualification of Bolsonaro, who has been accused by the Electoral Public Ministry of electoral crimes, abuse of power and misuse of public media during the campaign.
In the spotlight is a meeting Bolsonaro organized in mid-July 2022 with a series of foreign ambassadors whom he tried to make aware of the flaws in the Brazilian electoral system. The diplomats present later said that no evidence was presented at that meeting to support these theories.
Also within the process is the dissemination of confidential information that the former president would have made when in one of his weekly directs in social networks he talked about a secret investigation of the TSE about computer attacks to its structures, which finally did not involve any problem, but which he used to support his theories about the fragility of the system.
Ultimately, the so-called »coup draft» found in the house of his former Minister of Justice and former Secretary of Security of Brasilia, Anderson Torres, which included a series of guidelines in case of defeat in the elections, has also been included.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
