The exit comes at a time when President Jair Bolsonaro says that commercials for his campaign were not aired on radio
The TSE (Superior Electoral Court) fired Alexandre Gomes Machado, a cabinet advisor to the Judiciary Secretariat of the General Secretariat of the Presidency. He was replaced by André Barbosa dos Santos. The changes were published this Wednesday (26.Oct.2022) in the Official Diary of the Union. Here’s the intact (58 KB).
At the Court, Machado was responsible for receiving the electoral propaganda files and for making the pieces available in the TSE’s electronic system, allowing radio and TV stations access to the candidates’ entries. O Power 360 found that the change has nothing to do with statements by President Jair Bolsonaro’s (PL) campaign.
On Monday (Oct 24), Bolsonaro called the TSE and reported that several commercials for the campaign were not broadcast on radio. the minister Alexandre de MoraesPresident of the Court, determined the sending of documents that prove the allegation. Bolsonaro’s campaign sent on Tuesday (Oct 25) to the TSE a document (intact – 463 KB) with more information regarding the deletion of inserts.
In a note to Power 360the TSE said that “due to the electoral period, the management of the TSE has been making gradual changes in its team”.
This Wednesday (26.Oct.2022) edition of the Official Diary of the Union also brings the resignation of André Barbosa dos Santos from his previous position, in the Audiovisual Coordination, of the Communication and Multimedia Secretariat, of the General Secretariat of the Presidency. Here’s the intact (58 KB).
UNDERSTAND THE CASE
The President’s Campaign says that several insertions were no longer broadcast on radios. Communications Minister Fábio Faria and Bolsonaro’s campaign communications chief Fabio Wajngarten gave an interview journalists to talk about the topic (see the end of this report).
The chief executive’s lawyers classify the fact as “very serious, capable of effectively establishing the illegitimacy of the”. Bolsonaro asked the TSE to “immediate suspension of radio advertising” of the PT coalition. read the application (403 KB).
When asking for more information, Moraes said that the accusation sent to the TSE has no “any evidence and/or serious document”. The campaign order is based on a report made by the Audiency Brasil Tecnologiabased in Santa Catarina and which presents itself as “distribution platform, management and tracking of placements of offline media campaigns (radio)” In real time.
“This fact is extremely serious, as the requesting coalition points to alleged electoral fraud without any documentary basis, which, in theory, could characterize the authors’ electoral crime, if the motivation to disrupt the electoral process in its last week is verified.”, declared Moraes.
The president’s campaign then sent a Google Drive link (go to here) with the data that “beacon” the pushing. Read more on the subject here.
Watch Bolsonaro’s campaign speech (15min31s):
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