Judge rejects request to annul votes in Brazil – Bolsonaro’s party fined 4 million euros

The outgoing president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro It does not seem that he wants to concede defeat in the last presidential elections when the Social Democratic Party was Lola da Silva He won 50.9 percent of the vote against Bolsonaro’s 49.1.

Bolsonaro’s PL claims that more than half of the voting machines in the election did not work as they should. The PL earlier this week demanded that all votes from machines they claim are not working be declared invalid, which they believe would mean Bolsonaro’s victory in the election.

He writes in his decision Alexandre de Morais Among other things, the request to annul the vote contained no evidence or facts of any kind that wrongdoing had occurred. Bolsonaro’s party was also ordered to pay 23 million Omani riyals, equivalent to more than 4 million euros, in fines for initiating legal proceedings without valid reason.

The official change of power in Brazil only takes place in January, but Bolsonaro himself has not appeared since election day three weeks ago. Something he explains that a skin condition means he can’t wear pants.

Bolsonaro has long spoken out about the fully electronic voting system that Brazil has been using since the 1990s, which has opened up about fraud. Similar to the model Donald Trump In the US, which alleges fraud in the 2020 elections there, however, has never provided any evidence.