{"id":1961718,"date":"2023-06-30T16:48:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T20:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brazil-court-bans-bolsonaro-from-running-for-office-for-the-next-eight-years\/"},"modified":"2023-06-30T16:49:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T20:49:16","slug":"brazil-court-bans-bolsonaro-from-running-for-office-for-the-next-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brazil-court-bans-bolsonaro-from-running-for-office-for-the-next-eight-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian court bars Bolsonaro from seeking office for eight years."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrazil-court-bans-bolsonaro-from-running-for-office-for-the-next-eight-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1961718&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Brazil&#8217;s Top Elections Court Bars Former President Bolsonaro from Running for Office for Eight Years<\/h2>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-selectively-edited-trumps-speeches-defense-attorney\/\" title=\"House Democrats \u2018Selectively Edited\u2019 Trump\u2019s Speeches: Defense Attorney\">landmark decision<\/a>, Brazil&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brazil-court-bans-bolsonaro-from-running-for-office-for-the-next-eight-years\/\" title=\"Brazilian court bars Bolsonaro from seeking office for eight years.\">top elections court<\/a> has ruled that former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is ineligible to run for office for the next eight years. The seven-member Superior Electoral Court, in a majority vote, found Bolsonaro guilty of abuse of power for undermining faith in democracy through his claims of election fraud, particularly regarding the credibility of the country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-department-of-state-tells-counties-not-to-allow-outside-access-to-voting-systems\/\" title=\"Pennsylvania Department of State Tells Counties Not To Allow Outside Access to Voting Systems\">electronic voting systems<\/a>. Bolsonaro, who recently returned to Brazil after a three-month stay in Florida, expressed his dissatisfaction with the ruling, which he had anticipated.<\/p>\n<h3>Shift in GOP Stance on Free Trade is Irreversible, Says Trump Trade Representative Lighthizer<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unfair to me, for God&#8217;s sake,&#8221; Bolsonaro told reporters on Thursday, as reported by the Washington Post. &#8220;Show me something concrete that I did against democracy. I always operated within the boundaries of the constitution.&#8221; He vehemently rejected the court&#8217;s argument that his questioning of the voting system&#8217;s integrity amounted to an attack on democracy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot passively accept in Brazil that any criticism or suggestions for improving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-president-trump-is-traveling-to-gettysburg-to-meet-with-gop-lawmakers\/\" title=\"Reports: President Trump Is Traveling to Gettysburg to Meet with GOP Lawmakers\">electoral system<\/a> be seen as an assault on democracy,&#8221; Bolsonaro asserted.<\/p>\n<p>The court contended that Bolsonaro deliberately misled the public and incited his supporters, leading to the storming of Brazil&#8217;s Congress, Supreme Court, and Presidential Palace on January 8. Presiding Judge Benedito Gon\u00e7alves, in a 382-page opinion, held Bolsonaro &#8220;fully and personally responsible&#8221; for the assault on the electoral system. Gon\u00e7alves cited a meeting with foreign diplomats, where Bolsonaro highlighted alleged deficiencies in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-kraken-released-attorney-sidney-powell-files-104-page-bombshell-complaint-of-massive-fraud-in-georgia-election-update-michigan-too\/\" title=\"BREAKING: KRAKEN RELEASED! Attorney Sidney Powell Files 104 Page BOMBSHELL COMPLAINT of Massive Fraud in Georgia Election - Update: Michigan too\">voting process<\/a>, as a violation of his presidential duties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot turn a blind eye to the undemocratic consequences of inflammatory speeches and falsehoods that undermine the credibility of the electoral system,&#8221; Gon\u00e7alves emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro is expected to appeal the ruling, but even if successful, he still faces over a dozen related cases. The eight-year ban from office means that the former president will be unable to run for office until 2030, when he turns 75.<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro&#8217;s allies, including the former president himself, have suggested his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, as a potential replacement until he becomes eligible for office again in 2026, as reported by Reuters. Bolsonaro affirmed that he would &#8220;of course&#8221; support his wife&#8217;s candidacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> for more from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil&#8217;s highest elections court barred ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, 68, from running for office for eight years. The Superior Electoral Court, with a majority vote, found him guilty of abusing power by eroding trust in democracy through his unfounded allegations of election fraud, specifically questioning the election&#8217;s legitimacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1961719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1961719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}