CIA director urged Bolsonaro to stop doubting Brazil's voting system - report

[Judi Lynn]

Fears Brazilian president might refuse to accept defeat in this year’s election as leftist rival Lula is set to announce candidacy

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Thu 5 May 2022 12.02 EDT

The CIA director William Burns urged Jair Bolsonaro to stop questioning his country’s voting system, it has been claimed, amid growing fears the Brazilian president might refuse to accept defeat in this year’s election.

Polls suggest Bolsonaro, a far-right populist famed for his adulation of Donald Trump, will struggle to secure a second term when about 150 million Brazilians head to the polls in October to choose their next leader.

Bolsonaro’s leftist rival, the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is currently in pole position, and will formally announce his candidacy at a convention in São Paulo this weekend.

The possibility of a Lula victory appears to have spooked Bolsonaro, who has ratcheted up his anti-democratic rhetoric in recent weeks, reviving baseless doubts over the reliability of Brazil’s electronic voting system. Such claims – part of a long-running Bolsonaro campaign to delegitimize the electoral process for political gain – have alarmed both Bolsonaro’s opponents and members of the international community.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/05/cia-director-bolsonaro-brazil-voting-system-election

[drray23]

1. Good luck trying to convince Bolsonaro

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Trump and his magats have completely shot our credibility when it comes to election integrity. It is going to be a while before we can go around the world lecturing others about it..

[Judi Lynn]

2. Bolsonaro was pround when he was named the "Trump of the Tropics."

He doesn't read a lot, either! Only an idiot could feel good about that.

Hope you're right that we can at least give up that hypocritical "democracy" preaching and posturing! We wouldn't recognize democracy if it kicked us in our national backside.