The Superior Electoral Court signed, this Monday (6), an agreement with religious leaders to develop actions in order to collaborate for a peaceful environment in this year’s elections.
The signature took place during an event at the TSE headquarters, in Brasília, with the presence of leaders of African, Catholic, Evangelical, Buddhist, Jewish, Adventist and Spiritist religions.
The objective, according to the TSE, is to seek a healthy dialogue and free flow of ideas and proposals within this year’s electoral process.
The terms of cooperation, which do not have a pre-determined term, provide that religious leaders commit to promoting awareness-raising actions on political tolerance, the legitimation of divergent thinking and the exclusion of violence during preaching, sermons and homilies, or in public statements or publications that they may make.
The president of the TSE, Minister Edson Fachin, at the opening of the event, stressed the importance of having the support of religious leaders at the moment the country is experiencing.
“It is well known that the Electoral Justice, as an institution responsible for the peaceful processing of political differences, is currently facing unusual difficulties, as a result of growing intolerance, the progressive fraying of ties and, above all, the evident process of degradation of values resulting from of the unbridled expansion of the phenomenon of disinformation,” said Fachin.
The minister said that “to defend the peaceful nature of elections is to defend the right to opinion”.
“Defending democracy is denying anger, escaping rhetorical traps, trusting in the value of truth, in the fundamentality of public institutions and, especially, in the sacredness of living in communion,” he added.
Source: CNN Brasil
