• Brazil The Electoral Court asks to investigate Jair Bolsonaro for attacking the voting system

Judge Alexandre de Moraes, of the

Supreme Court of Brazil

, included President Jair Bolsonaro among those investigated on Wednesday in a

process about spreading false news

that undermines democracy.

The court itself reported on the magistrate's decision, which responded to a request made by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) based on the discrediting campaign that the far-right leader has unleashed

against the electronic ballot boxes used in the elections held in Brazil.

for more than two decades.

The investigation in which Bolsonaro has been included began in 2019 limited to the dissemination of false news through the internet, but two months ago it began to focus on the

possible existence of those who have been described as "anti-democratic digital" groups

, in their majority of the extreme right that the ruler leads.

The request of the TSE complements another decision of the electoral Justice itself, which decided to initiate an "administrative" process against the president after

he even affirmed that if in 2022 the voting is not resumed by ballot, "there will be no elections

.

"

During the last weeks, Bolsonaro also affirmed almost daily that the president of the TSE, Luis Barroso, also a member of the Supreme Court, "conspires" to consummate a "fraud" in 2022 in favor of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who heads all the polls with 14 months to go before the elections.

The president reiterated those statements the day before and this Wednesday, in an interview with a radio in the interior of the country in which he came to raise "at the service of what interests Barroso is."

Bolsonaro has even said that his "fight" is for democracy and not against the electronic ballot box

, but against Barroso himself, whom he has accused of trying to prevent a constitutional amendment proposed by the Government to resume voting on ballots.

This initiative is pending in a committee of the Chamber of Deputies and suggests that,

in parallel to electronic voting, ballots should also be adopted

so that the vote "is really auditable", which in his opinion does not happen with the current one. system.

However, the electoral Justice itself has stressed that the entire electronic voting and counting process is "safe", that it has not been the subject of a single complaint of fraud since 1996, when it began to be used, and that it is also monitored by all political parties and independent observers.

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