Nogueira de Oliveira makes use of the identical conspiratorial ideas and language as Bolsonaro and the Generals have repeated for the previous 12 months, and highlighted in daring are a number of threatening passages. It makes clear that, regardless of the structure, the Army, see themselves as guardians of the electoral system and democracy, because the “fourth energy of the Republic”:
“With out this devoted, zealous and environment friendly work of the Armed Forces, it turns into very troublesome for the Brazilian State to hold out elections in a part of the nation.”
The Basic follows on this theme:
“the work of the Armed Forces is at all times democratic, searching for to contribute to the nation having honest, democratic and clear elections.”, “the Armed Forces developed believable proposals, at varied ranges, from technical to governance”, “I reiterate that the recommendations proposed by the Armed Forces should be debated by the technicians.”, “It ought to be famous {that a} elementary premise is that the train of the vote is secret, not its verification.”, “In abstract, what’s sought with the proposals of the Armed Forces is to enhance the safety and transparency of the electoral course of”.
“it’s established that events and coalitions will have the ability to examine all of the phases of the voting course of and the counting of elections and the digital processing of the aggregation of the outcomes”, referring to earlier calls for for auditing via printed vote and parallel rely performed by the Armed Drives themselves.
To justify all this, he argues that “the Armed Forces have been invited by this Court docket” and “listed as supervisory entities”. The overall then complains that the “TSE has signalled that it doesn’t intend to deepen the dialogue”.
In a chilling passage which made the headlines, Bolsonaro’s Defence Minister complains that “the Armed Forces don’t really feel correctly honored” by the Electoral Court docket.
