By participating in an event promoted by the University of São Paulo (USP) this Thursday (24), the Attorney General of the Union, Jorge Messiah, pointed out that the former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) promoted “scammers” and attacked the judiciary.
“When we advance in time, we will identify between 2019 and 2022 the characteristics of tensions within our democratic system from the perspective of the state than I call separation of powers,” said Messiah.
“Because you remember here that we had a president who promoted scammers And among these coup doming ones we had stimuli the invasion of the Federal Supreme Court itself, affronts our judiciary and advertisements for attempted coup d’état, AutoGolpe, in fact, because the president was there because he had been democratically elected, ”he continued.
Bolsonaro became a defendant in the Federal Supreme Court (STF) in the case that investigates an attempted coup in the country after the 2022 elections, when he could not reelect himself. The former president in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the DF Star Hospital, where it is hospitalized in Brasilia.
Still during an event at USP, Messiah mentioned the impact of social networks on Brazilian elections.
“Signs of institutional degradation were already very evident, because we need, within this historical milestone, trying to put it within a chronological perspective, to understand what was 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022,” the Attorney General continued.
“Somehow, the whole society and all participants of the democratic process were harshly tensioned by the use of a technology that those who knew they knew how to manipulate well and those who did not know did not have the condition to use in an effectively.”
For him, 2018 – when Jair Bolsonaro was elected president – pressured the electoral process with the massive use of social networks in a context without proper regulation by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
The Internet Civil Marco, which is on the Supreme Court, began to be tried in November last year. In February this year, Asking for faster process analysis discuss the regulation of digital platforms in the country.
“Algorithmic manipulation it was already something that caught attention, but not the size of the challenge that is shown today and certainly not what will be shown by what a few days for the technological revolution is very fast,” said Messiah.
A CNN He contacted Bolsonaro’s defense and awaits positioning.
