BRASILIA (Reuters) – President and reelection candidate Jair Bolsonaro (PL) once again suggested on Monday that he might not accept the results of the polls, questioned once again, without presenting evidence, the integrity of the electoral system and also put into question doubt the exemption of Ministers of Electoral Justice and research institutes.
In an interview with TV Record, Bolsonaro again questioned the results of electoral polls, which have pointed to the advantage of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), with a chance, even, of winning the election in the first round, on Sunday.
“Look, I will wait for the result,” Bolsonaro said when asked if he would accept the election result if he is defeated.
“I have never seen it on the streets, I have said in my statements, as I said in Campinas, that a candidate has 45% of voting intentions without being able to go out on the streets. Unable to address the public. And what is democracy? It is the popular will. We are not seeing the popular will expressed in research institutes – in particular Datafolha – and even less within the TSE”, he said.
Less than a week before the first round on Sunday, a new poll by IPEC showed this Monday that Lula had a positive oscillation of 1 percentage point, reaching 48% of voting intentions, while Bolsonaro remained stable with 31%, the same indicator of the last survey.
Considering only valid votes, when blank and null votes are discarded, IPEC pointed to the possibility of Lula guaranteeing his election next Sunday. The PT has 52% of valid votes, repeating the same level as last week.
In addition to discrediting the research institutes, Bolsonaro also suggested that ministers from the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) had a partial role.
The president said that “the judges who took Lula out of jail and made him eligible are exactly the same ones who lead the Brazilian electoral process and who make everything difficult for the Electoral Transparency Commission to be able to participate to avoid the possibility of questioning the theme of the elections. ”.
The TSE denies the possibility of fraud in electronic voting machines and has reiterated several times that they are safe and inviolable. It also carried out tests on the integrity of the electronic system, in addition to creating the Electoral Transparency Commission to which the Armed Forces were invited, along with representatives from other bodies, such as the National Congress.
Bolsonaro said he would have no problems with the result in elections that he considers “clean”, but, when asked how he would diagnose the way they were held, he came up with a little explanatory answer.
“Just as you have no way of proving an electoral process these days, the other side has no way of proving that it was serious either,” he said.
The president, who accused the TSE of acting with “enormous unwillingness” to accept suggestions from the Armed Forces in the Electoral Transparency Commission, said that there is a “last card” at stake: Armed Forces, Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) and Ministry of Justice forwarded to the TSE a list of names of technicians to be authorized to remain within the court to monitor the investigation.
“I think that with this the chances of fraud are not zero, they are close to zero. Zeroed in only with printed votes, as in the elections in Paraguay”, defended the president, whose proposal to implement the printed vote was defeated by Congress.
(Reporting by Maria Carolina Marcello)
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