Electoral Court president Moraes rejects Bolsonaro’s PL party’s request to annul elections and fines US$4 million

The president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Minister Alexandre de Moraes, rejected the Liberal Party’s (PL, right) request for the Court to verify inconsistencies found by a private audit in 250,000 ballot boxes of models before 2020.

In addition to denying the request, the minister ordered the party to pay a R$22 (US$4) million fine for “bad faith litigation”.

Moraes also blocked party funds of the coalition of President Jair Bolsonaro until payment of the fine and ordered the establishment of an administrative procedure to investigate “possible misuse of purpose in the use of party structure, including the Party Fund, especially about the conduct of Valdemar Costa Neto and Carlos Rocha.”

Carlos Rocha is one of the study’s authors that detected inconsistencies in 250,000 ballot boxes in the second round of elections.

The inconsistencies would have been responsible for the victory of Luiz Lula da Silva.

According to an excerpt of the order, the minister also included the president of the PL, Valdemar Costa Neto and Carlos Rocha, in the controversial inquiry into alleged anti-democratic acts.

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