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Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

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Re: Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

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Post by Gualdrapo »

belter wrote: post #5

Brazil now joins South Korea (1996), Peru (2009), Uruguay (2010), and Bolivia (2022) in proving the rule of law can reach ex-presidents who trample their constitutions. One major democracy still wont test that principle...

We (Colombia) barely joined that club a few weeks ago for a few days, but corruption and the dark powers that have ruled this country for a long time kept reigning.

Re: Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

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Post by whydontyoushare »

betaby wrote: post #12

poll from 2024 shows that 47% believe that Brazil is “under a judicial dictatorship”

It's important to know the context. That poll was made the very same days the Brazilian Federal Police performed search warrants against Bolsonaro and his allies. Which was a key step in finding incriminatory evidence now publicly presented and accepted during the current judgment. IMO it's no wonder 47% of respondants said so in that moment. You can also check that this was the opinion of ~82% among those who voted for Bolsonaro at the presidential election 16 months before (49% of votes). And in another question of the same poll, 99% of his voters believe ex-president Bolsonaro was being unjustly persecuted (average was 42%).

Re: Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

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Post by matheusmoreira »

betaby wrote: post #12

poll from 2024 shows that 47% believe that Brazil is “under a judicial dictatorship”

It is. Polls are not necessary. One needs simply to observe how these judges act to arrive at this conclusion.

The judges responsible for finding Bolsonaro guilty went out of their way to censor him and his supporters prior to the 2022 election. Literally unconstitutional censorship. They're the supreme court, nobody can stop them even when they violate the nation's highest laws.

It's a literal crime for these judges to engage in political and partidarian actions. Does that stop them? No. After doing literaly everything they could to put Lula in power, they went on to brag about it in public. We defeated Bolsonarism, one of them said.

Now these same judges condemn Bolsonaro, just like they condemned thousands of civilians over what was little more than a protest. Leftists once set fire to the exact same buildings but now it's a coup attempt.

Among the judges we find such impartial characters as the current president's former lawyer and a proud self-admitted communist.

This guy's sentence was pre-determined. He was guilty from the start. This circus was merely for show.

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