Det blive tydeligere og tydeligere : under kommunisten Lula er Brasilieln blevet en bananrepublik
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In a stunning last-minute power grab that has enraged Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin, Lula’s former personal attorney whom the communist president appointed to the Supreme Federal Court (STF), unilaterally extended voting nationwide by two hours on October 25 during the presidential runoff against Flavio Bolsonaro.
According to explosive reporting from Brazilian journalist Malu Gaspar of O Globo, every minister on the TSE was against the idea. The consensus inside the electoral court was clear: voting hours, fixed by law from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Brazil time, should not be extended.
Yet Zanin, acting on a request from Lula’s campaign, issued the order around 5:01 p.m., one minute after polls were supposed to close, trampling the specialized electoral body that is constitutionally responsible for running the election.
Zanin’s decision came after Lula’s campaign complained of public transport problems, initially focused on cities in Bahia and later expanded. Flavio Bolsonaro’s team had requested a more limited extension in certain states due to heavy rains and flooding, directed to the TSE.
TSE President Kassio Nunes Marques had signaled he would not intervene and was still seeking information; the court as a body preferred to stick to the statutory hours.
With the TSE remaining silent, the PT turned to the STF, and Zanin, known as “Lula’s justice” for defending him in the Lava Jato cases before being appointed, delivered.
Just two hours before polls were set to close, Lula was having a MELTDOWN on national television, amid concerns that his supporters were being prevented from reaching polling stations and casting their ballots.
The original order applied nationwide, even though many polling stations were already closing their doors.
It was a stunning, last-minute intervention in one of the most consequential elections in Brazilian history.
The decision immediately generated confusion because electronic voting machines in numerous locations had already been shut down and election officials had begun closing their polling stations.
Zanin subsequently clarified that his extension applied only to polling locations where the electronic voting machines had not yet been closed.
The TSE officially confirmed that interpretation.
“Everyone at the TSE is very angry with Zanin, saying he could not have made this decision with half an hour of voting left,” one TSE minister told Gaspar’s team while monitoring the count at court headquarters.
“The impression is that Zanin has never seen an electronic ballot box live, that he does not know that after it emits the voting report, it is mechanically impossible to reopen the urna.”
Ministers described a climate of fury and apprehension, fearing that the loser, would challenge the results and force a “third round” in the courts. “Nobody knows what is going to happen. Everyone fears that whoever loses will question the result,” another minister said.
Conservative Flavio Bolsonaro called for Sunday’s presidential results to be annulled in Brazil.
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Flavio Bolsonaro: “What happened today was not something normal. In fact, it was something unacceptable. At 5:01 pm, Justice Zanin makes a decision extending the election hours by 2 hours. This has never happened before in the history of Brazil… A Supreme Court justice, for the first time in history—Lula’s former lawyer—issued a unilateral decree at the request of a former law partner of his, and changed the rules of the game in the middle of the game!… At 5:01 PM, Justice Zanin—who is not part of the Superior Electoral Court—trampling over the specialized electoral court, made a decision extending voting by two hours. This had never happened in the history of Brazil!”
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