In the trial in which it filed the request to revoke the ticket of President Jair Bolsonaro, who won the 2018 elections, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) understood that there was undue use of WhatsApp to attack opponents, but concluded that there was no evidence that the shots were able to influence the vote. The court ministers, however, have signaled that new irregularities will not be tolerated in the 2022 elections and, if the infractions are repeated, those responsible could be arrested, and candidates’ registrations, revoked.
In this episode of E Tem Mais, Carol Nogueira presents an overview of the doubts about how the Electoral Court will face the challenge of monitoring and punishing mass shootings with false information in next year’s campaigns. To point out the challenges of the Electoral Justice in the inspection of irregularities, the lawyer Luiz Fernando Casagrande Pereira, general coordinator of the Brazilian Academy of Electoral and Political Law (Abradep), and the political scientist Marco Antonio Teixeira, professor of public management at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV).
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