Down in the polls, Bolsonaro lies again, claiming he would have won in the first round in 2018 if the 'election had been clean'.
He also made unsubstantiated claims that the person who stabbed him during the 2018 campaign was 'a member of PSOL'.
Reuters President Jair Bolsonaro reiterated on Friday that he would have won the 2018 election in the first round if the elections had been clean, again raising suspicions, without evidence, that some kind of irregularity occurred in the election in which he was elected in the second round.
"We were on the brink of socialism, a country mired in corruption, a country that seemed to have no direction. God willed that—surviving a stabbing by a member of the PSOL—I could also win an election without a party, without a marketing strategist, without television. I should have won in the first round if it had been a clean election," he said at a ceremony in Macapá (AP) inaugurating fiber optic cables.
In recent days, after a months-long truce and with his approval ratings declining in the polls for his reelection, Bolsonaro has resumed raising doubts about the 2018 election and the electronic voting system for the October succession.
By raising suspicions like this, the president became the target of investigations for spreading false information and trying to destabilize the election before the Supreme Federal Court (STF) and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
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