Alexandre de Moraes: Brazil’s electoral court showed that “social networks are not lawless land”

Where many accuse him of arbitrary persecution of political opponents, unrestrained censorship, destruction of institutional order, and excessive abuse of power, Alexandre de Moraes himself pretends do see only his fight ‘against lawlessness on the net’.

Alexandre de Moraes, president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), said on Monday, Dec.19, that the Court’s performance during the year 2022 established new dynamics “in the fight against fake news” and showed that social networks “are not lawless land”.

During the closing session of the judicial year at the Electoral Court, the TSE minister said that “here in Brazil, the digital militias are fought, are punished, and have not managed and will not be able to influence the elections negatively.

The minister highlighted the importance of the Court’s role in overseeing the electoral process and the agency’s actions so that “everything reached the end of the judicial period in a good way.”

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“The Court has shown itself to be united, a collegiate body independent of differences of opinion.”

The president of the TSE defined colleagues and assistants as “true agents of citizenship and democracy” and thanked the other ministers, the Public Ministry, and electoral judges and election servers, such as clerks.

“The weapon on election day of the voter, of the elector is the vote. This Court has barred the use of weapons barred the carrying and transportation [of weapons] by CACs [collector, sport shooter, and hunter] to ensure peace in the elections.”

“This court also made it clear, for this and the next elections, that electoral harassment and cell phones inside the booths to prove electoral harassment are incompatible with democracy,” said Moraes.

Moraes said that the process reaffirmed the electorate’s confidence in the electoral system and the electronic ballot boxes.

“Confidence of the electorate in the electoral system, in the electronic ballot boxes and, most important of all, the confidence of Brazilians and Brazilians in democracy, in elections, in the periodic choice of their representatives.”

TSE Vice President Ricardo Lewandowski thanked Moraes for his “firm hand and competent direction” in the “very incisive fight against fake news for the sake of democracy.”

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