{"id":25545,"date":"2023-06-23T05:40:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T09:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=25545"},"modified":"2023-06-23T05:40:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T09:40:15","slug":"bolsonaro-trial-which-could-bar-brazil-ex-leader-from-office-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/06\/23\/bolsonaro-trial-which-could-bar-brazil-ex-leader-from-office-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolsonaro: Trial which could bar Brazil ex-leader from office starts"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n

The trial of Brazil’s ex-president Jair Bolsonaro before the Supreme Electoral Court has started in Brasilia.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

Mr Bolsonaro is accused of abusing his power and spreading false information about Brazil’s electoral system ahead of last year’s presidential poll.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

While it is not a criminal case, the judges do have the power to bar Mr Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

He is also under investigation in a number of separate criminal cases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

Mr Bolsonaro, who is back in Brazil after a three-month self-imposed exile in Florida, has not said whether he plans to run for president in the 2026 election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

The far-right politician, who is the honorary president of the Liberal Party, has only said that he would use his “experience to help his party campaign in next year’s municipal elections”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

The charges before the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) revolve around a speech Mr Bolsonaro gave while he was still president in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

On 18 July, he invited foreign diplomats to his residence in the capital, Brasilia, where he falsely claimed that the electronic voting machines used in Brazil were prone to being hacked and open to large-scale fraud.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\n