Tag: Superior Electoral Tribunal, TSE

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 17:39 UTC

  Bolsonaro will respect the elections' outcome provided they are clean

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Monday evening in a TV interview that he will accept the election's outcome provided they are clear, and warned he was being pressured into becoming a dictator.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  De Moraes takes over as Brazil's TSE Chief Justice

  

  Alexandre De Moraes Tuesday received a standing ovation after his speech in defense of democracy upon becoming Brazil's Superior Electoral Court Chief Justice.

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  Brazil's Electoral Court wants Bolsonaro investigated for spreading fake news against ballot boxes

  

  Brazil's Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) has asked the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) to launch a probe against President Jair Bolsonaro for his remarks regarding the reliability of the electronic voting system.

• Saturday, September 1st 2018 - 07:36 UTC

  Lula barred from running in October elections; Haddad will lead the PT slate

  

  Brazil's top electoral court, TSE, on early Saturday ended the political comeback plans of former president Lula da Silva, barring him from running in elections in October. Lula is in prison having been sentenced to twelve years for corruption last April.

• Wednesday, January 24th 2018 - 07:31 UTC

  Lula supporters will launch his presidential candidacy whatever a court decides on the bribe conviction

  

  Brazilian politicians, voters and investors will find out this Wednesday whether an appeals court will allow the country’s popular leader, Lula da Silva, to run for president this year after being found guilty of accepting a bribe.

• Tuesday, October 10th 2017 - 06:07 UTC

  Public funds to finance election campaigns to help fight corruption, “insufficient”

  

  A political campaign fund set up in Brazil with public money to help fight corruption is not big enough for the country’s 2018 general election, the head of the country’s top electoral court said. Brazil’s scandal-plagued political class voted to establish the 1.7 billion Reais (US$542 million) fund to finance election campaigns after corporate donations were banned in the wake of the country’s biggest ever corruption scandal.

• Thursday, June 8th 2017 - 10:56 UTC

  Brazilian Electoral Tribunal adds sessions to speed a decision on president Temer's case

  

  The head of Brazil´s Superior Electoral Tribunal, TSE, Justice Gilmar Mendes added extraordinary sessions, including next Saturday, to continue considering the alleged political and economic abuse committed by the winning ticket of the 2014 elections, when Dilma Rousseff was reelected with Michel Temer as vice-president. According to court sources the decision to add sessions this week received unanimous support from his six co-Judges.