RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - President Jair Bolsonaro said on May 12, during a live broadcast on social networks, that the Armed Forces will not interfere in elections. The statement responded to the president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Edson Fachin, who earlier criticized attempts to discredit the Brazilian electoral system.
"I don't know where he [Fachin] is getting this ghost that the Armed Forces want to interfere in the Electoral Justice. There is no interference; nobody wants to impose anything, nobody wants to attack the ballot boxes, attack Democracy, nothing like that. Nobody is engaging in anti-democratic . . .
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