Before taking office on January 1, the next president saw his election certified by the Higher Electoral Court
by Anne Vigna (Rio de Janeiro, Correspondence)
The certification ceremony of the President elected by the Electoral Higher Court (TSE), before taking office on the 1 er , was until now a formality in Brazil. Tinted with boredom, she devoted the winner’s election by approving the campaign accounts and ending any legal challenge on the result.
This year, the celebration was of capital importance while supporters of the outgoing president, Jair Bolsonaro, continue to camp in front of the military barracks, asking for an intervention by the armed forces against the election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, says Lula, whom they consider illegal, almost a month and a half after the second round. To avoid any risk of bolsonarists’ intrusion, a large police quota protected the Place des Trois-Pouvoirs, Monday, December 12, in the heart of the capital. Despite these precautions, vehicles and buildings were burnt down in the evening in Brasilia, without making victims.
For this third term at the head of Brazil, Lula could not hold back her tears by receiving this diploma, as in her first election, in 2002. The emotion was all the stronger since he was Received in the TSE by a “Hello President Lula!”: A greeting launched by representatives of the social movements present at the forefront, and which he had heard every morning of his supporters grouped in front of the prison where he was locked up, during the five One hundred and eighty days of his detention between 2018 and 2019. Even if he briefly mentioned this past, the elected president and now certified wanted to show a new Brazil, rid of the Bolsonarism which he described as ” Destruction, authoritarian, sowing hatred and lies and provoking unprecedented political violence “.
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The founder of the workers’ party (PT) celebrated “the victory of a significant part of the Brazilian population which has reconquered the right to live in democracy” and praised the courage of the judges of the TSE to “have it defended tirelessly “. The question of the rule of law will be widely taken up in the speech of the president of the TSE, Alexandre de Moraes, whose speech will be even longer than that of the elected president: “Democracy has won in the face of violence, disinformation and The hatred made by groups which, already identified, will be punished. I promise it so that all this does not happen again in the next elections, “insisted the one who has become, in recent years, the bane of the supporters of the fallen president .
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