Bolsonaro spread disinformation on Brazilian vote: Police | Political Issues

The Brazilian president took part “directly” in spreading lies about the election, a police report said.

President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro had a “direct and necessary” role in spreading false news about the country’s elections during a television broadcast, according to a police report.

Federal police chief Denisse Ribeiro wrote in the letter that Bolsonaro Rivers had a “reasonable intention” to mislead Brazilians in the country’s elections, the Reuters news agency, which checked the police file, said Friday.

In a sports gamebook similar to the one used in the past US President Donald Trump, Bolsonaro has stated several times in recent months that he is in Brazil electronic voting machines was robbed in the 2018 presidential election, which he won.

He says he should have been elected in the first round of voting, but never submitted any evidence fraudulent.

He also questioned the reliability of next year’s elections, meaning he would not accept the results if the electronic system was not converted into one that included printed receipts that could be re-read.

Bolsonaro’s claims have been was rejected by Brazilian judicial experts, and critics have criticized the right-wing leader – who has seen the decline popularity in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis in Brazil – seeking to sow doubts before the 2022 vote in order to contest the results.

Bolsonaro is currently on the move Former president left Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on the ballot. Lula, who led Brazil from 2003 to 2010, has 48 percent of the vote compared to Bolsonaro’s 22 percent, according to a survey released Thursday by leading data company Datafolha.

This means that if elections are held today, Lula would have had enough votes to succeed in the first paragraph. Brazil’s electoral law requires a frontrunner to win more than half of all votes cast, eliminating invalid or invalid votes.

A previous Datafolha survey in September was available Easy with 44 per cent of the vote, compared with 26 per cent of Bolsonaro.

The Brazilian presidency did not immediately respond to a request from Reuters for comment on a police report.

Ribeiro stated in his report that a the president he criticized the actions of many public servants involved in the election, and he also promoted the lies promoted by his cautious followers.

“This research has helped us to realize that the Honorable President Jair Messias Bolsonaro has taken direct and effective action in promoting the spread of lies, following the methods of international governments,” he said.

The report was sent to the Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is leading the investigation into false news.

The federal police investigation began with a video published by Bolsonaro in August in which he asked a number of questions about the electronic voting system used in Brazil since 1996.

Even Bolsonaro and Lula announced his candidacy for next year’s presidential election in Latin America.