Brazil’s Search for Accountability After Jan. 8
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🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Last month, Brazil’s highest electoral court found that former President Jair Bolsonaro had abused his political power in the 2022 elections because of his conduct in a meeting with foreign ambassadors in Brasília in July 2022. For this violation of the country’s election laws, the electoral court banned Bolsonaro from seeking public office until 2030.
Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sat down with Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer, Professor of Constitutional Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and Thomas Bustamante, Professor of Legal Theory at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, to discuss Brazil’s search for accountability and justice in the aftermath of the coup attempt on Jan. 8, why the electoral court’s ruling was not so much a legal innovation as a mere application of existing laws, and the significance of President Lula’s decision not to rely on the military in his government’s response. They also discussed what’s next for Bolsonarismo.
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| 0:33.0 | Only considering those processes related to electoral disqualifications, |
| 0:39.0 | there are no major consequences than this one, |
| 0:43.0 | that pouts him from disputing elections in the next eight years. |
| 0:49.0 | But we have another criminal lawsuits that involve several other things, |
| 0:55.0 | let's say, the way by which Bolsonaro managed the COVID-19 pandemic |
| 0:59.0 | and so on, that can go on in lower courts now in Brazil |
| 1:03.0 | and probably bring some results that are harsher for Bolsonaro. |
| 1:09.0 | I don't know if prison would be one of them, but at least in an abstract way, |
| 1:15.0 | we could consider that this is something that probably Bolsonaro is, let's say, afraid of. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm Tyler McBride, managing editor of LawFair, |
| 1:25.0 | and this is the LawFair podcast July 27th, 2023. |
| 1:29.0 | Last month, Brazil's highest electoral court found that former president Jari Bolsonaro |
| 1:33.0 | had abused his political power in the 2022 elections, |
| 1:37.0 | because of his conduct in a meeting with foreign ambassadors in Brazil in July 2022. |
| 1:41.0 | For this violation of the country's election laws, |
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