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by Ricardo Brito
BRASILIA, June 30 (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced on Friday to eight years of ineligibility by judges of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) in Brasilia for abuse of power and disinformation during the presidential election l ‘last year.
Five of the TSE’s seven judges voted for the conviction and two against.
Jair Bolsonaro disputed the result of the presidential election organized in October 2022 in Brazil, concluded by his defeat against Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva.
He is accused of having created a national movement aimed at overturning the results of the elections, which culminated in the invasion by his supporters, for several hours, of the Supreme Court, the Congress building and the presidential palace on January 8. .
The judge in charge of the case, Benedito Goncalves, voted earlier this week in favor of a sentence of ineligibility until 2030 saying that he had, during a meeting with foreign ambassadors, spread ” doubts and incited conspiracy theories”.
Jair Bolsonaro, who denies any wrongdoing, called the vote a “stab in the back”. He has already said he plans to go to the Supreme Court.
“I did not attack the electoral system, I just showed its possible flaws,” he said in an interview with Itatiaia radio station on Friday, before the judgment. (Report Ricardo Brito; French version Nathan Vifflin, edited by Kate Entringer)
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