Bolsonaro said he could skip the 2022 election if he doesn’t change the voting system

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday stepped up his pressure against the electronic voting system the country has used for two decades. and he said if the ballot is not passed he could ignore the 2022 election result.

“If this method continues, we are going to have problems because one party may not accept the result. And this side will obviously be our side“Said the Brazilian president in a radio interview Guaiba.

“We are going to have problems next year,” he repeated, referring to the presidential elections to be held in October 2022., for which all the polls already present former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Bolsonaro’s biggest antagonist in politics, as a big favorite.

Bolsonaro argues that the electronic voting system the country adopted more than two decades ago promotes fraud, something he has never shown although he claims to have “testing“From his statement.

The president even said that in the 2018 election, in which he was elected president, there was also “fraud”., which led the Higher Electoral Tribunal to demand that he present the “evidence” that he claims to have.

However, Bolsonaro refuses to verify his complaints and, on the contrary, has come to challenge those who defend the cleanliness of the current voting system to which “Show proof that there is no fraud” with electronic ballot boxes.

The president reaffirmed his confidence in a project presented by the government to Congress and that he proposes to return to voting by ballot papers.

However, at least 11 political parties, including some from the center and right-wing forces that support the government, They have already spoken out against the approval of this bill and have defended the transparency of the electronic voting system.

With apparent reference to these positions contrary to the project, Bolsonaro assured this Wednesday that “They can create a lot of problems for the next year” and he insisted that, with this initiative, it is only intended that “the vote be auditable and transparent”.

On the other hand, poll published in mid-June shows Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are in a technical tie ahead of the 2022 presidential elections.

According to the survey conducted by the Paraná Research Institute, the difference between the two is narrow, in favor of the current president in the first round and the former president in the ballot.

The study, initiated by the Social Liberal Party (PSL), was carried out between 11 and 15 June. According to See, was commissioned by the political party to test the image of the presenter José Luiz Datena and his possible candidacy.

The difference between Bolsonaro and Lula is very narrow with a small advantage for the current head of state in the first round. The president has 34.3% of the voting intentions, while the leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) reaches 32.5%. They are in a technical equality situation since the margin of error is plus / minus two percentage points.

(With information from EFE)

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