Brazil votes amid polarization and Bolsonaro’s threats of not recognizing outcome

Never Brazil He came to his election appointment with a lot of uncertainty. The reasons for this confusion, mixed with anxiety, have to do with Bolsonaro’s unfiltered threat of threats. challenge the results if not in your favour. The retired captain’s aggression increased as the polls predicted a defeat for him in the second round as well.

Bolsonaro leans towards the latter between reality and fugitive ambitions. During II. Elizabeth’s funeraland in the most beautiful style of your admiration donald trumpThe retired captain assured him if he didn’t win in the first round, with 60% of the vote. “something abnormal” will have been in Supreme Electoral Court (TSE). Provocations to question the decision in Brazil Attack on the Capitol.

Bolsonarizm’s attacks on TSE are close to impossible. His main authority and one of Bolsonaro’s goalsAlexandre de Moraeshe had to ‘prove’ that he did not exist. “secret room” where the votes will be manipulated. “It’s an open and clean room,” he said after touring the facility with the defense minister. Paulo Sergio Nogueira de Oliveiratogether with the head of government Liberal Party (PL), Valdemar Costa Neto, as well as national and international observers.

On the other hand, TSE accused PL of disclosing”fake informationThrough a so-called “technical” document that says there is “no external control” over the source code of electronic ballot boxes and electoral systems programs, and also “absolute power to manipulate the results” over the electoral system. The supreme court added that these conclusions were “not true, false or true, without any basis in fact”, “in a clear attempt to disrupt the natural course of the electoral process”.

rivers of lies

The political damage had already been done, although Costa Neto later admitted the room was “now” open. this social networks These are the most productive battlefields where the far right tries to gain will on the basis of an uninterrupted cataract. ‘fake news’. In the 2018 elections, the mock campaign was based on moral and gender issues. messages about its distribution multiplied. penis mouth bottles In the nurseries of municipalities managed by the PT.

According to Palver Mapping, a tech company that monitors more than 15,000 public WhatsApp groups, ‘fake news’ in this contest revolves around what is claimed. elections are not transparent. The São Paulo newspaper ‘Folha’ referred to one of the crudest texts: the opening and ballot box tampering inside Union led by Lula’s party. The message reached millions of phones. Bolsonaro did not hesitate to propagate the idea of ​​disorder to the point of relentlessly revealing it to the diplomatic community. And what the retired captain said is then replicated in virtual spaces and through his followers.

pentecostal priest silas malafaiaA vital ally of the far-right government divine punishment if the president’s complaints that the polls, placed in 1996, that allowed Bolsonaro to be elected to parliament five times and to win the presidential election four years ago, were malfunctioning, are confirmed. “May Allah put an end to this for more than eight hours with his infinite power. And if this matter is blocked for more than eight hours, the house will fall“, said about the review.

Fear and indecision

On the eve of the elections, lies are feeding dangerously. Bolsonaro warns he can order the army to close polling stations if voters are prohibited from exercising their rights with the green and yellow jersey of the Brazilian football team. Permanent warnings left their mark on the voters. A poll by the Brazilian Forum of Public Safety found that 67.5% of voters they are afraid of being physically attacked for his political choice. The ratio is higher between woman (71.8%), scarce resources (71.5%) and Afro-descendants (73%). Fear can lead to not participating in the selection process. A higher degree of abstention increases Bolsonaro’s chances of making it to the second round.