The Brazilian president is already preparing the ground for continuing to govern despite an election defeat. In front of foreign diplomats, he now attacked the electronic voting system and the Supreme Court.
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president, center, greets attendees at a rally during Bahia’s Independence Day in Salvador, Bahia state, Brazil, on Saturday, July 2, 2022. Former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva still leads the Brazilian presidential race in a potential Runoff against incumbent Bolsonaro, a survey carried out between June 20-24 by Futura for Modalmais shows. Photographer: Maira Erlich/Bloomberg
This is how the Brazilians rarely see their president: in a blue suit and glasses, Jair Bolsonaro read a kind of speech on the state of the nation from the sheet. But what the right-wing populist said in composed words in front of dozens of foreign diplomats had something to do with it: Bolsonaro once again raised doubts about alleged weaknesses in the electronic voting system. In addition, he already accused the judges of the Supreme Court, almost three months before the elections in October, of colluding against his election victory. A defamation they rejected.