Because it harbors military personnel, the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) bears its share of the blame for the coup threat, says Bernardo Mello Franco.

247 - The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) bears its share of the blame for the coup threats that haunt the 2022 elections, states journalist Bernardo Mello Franco in an article published in the newspaper. The Globe this Friday (18).

He recalls that Bolsonaro said that "the Army will determine the 'next steps' of the electoral process and that the Armed Forces will be 'guarantors of the fairness of the elections.' This task was never foreseen in the Constitution."

According to Mello Franco, the court's mistake was to accommodate military personnel in order to gain the sympathy of the military. "In December, the Court offered the position of Director-General to General Fernando Azevedo e Silva. He accepted the invitation and set a date for his inauguration. At the beginning of the week, he announced his withdrawal. He cited health reasons and left the court with a difficult situation. The general lacked the credentials to act as a guardian of legality. As a minister in the Bolsonaro government, he celebrated the 1964 coup as a 'milestone for democracy.' Those who defended his presence dreamed of attracting the sympathy of the barracks. In practice, they legitimized the idea of ​​military tutelage over the election."

"The TSE also opened its doors to General Heber Portella, nominated by Minister Braga Netto for a certain transparency committee," Mello Franco points out.

“I am assuming that the Armed Forces are here to help Brazilian democracy. And not to arm a president who wants to attack it,” said the president of the TSE, Minister Luís Roberto Barroso, in his farewell speech to the court this Thursday (17). The journalist counters: “perhaps the penny dropped too late.”

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