[Black Brazil]
Luis Roberto Barroso: “There are times in life when everyone needs to choose which side of history they want to be on. Today, we affirm that we are on the side of those who fight racism.”
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Black Brazilian Congresswoman Benedita da Silva welcomed a new electoral ruling aimed at fighting racism in Brazil s electoral process.
Black political candidates in Brazil must get a fair share of air time and public funding, the top electoral court has ruled in a decision set to change the face of elections.
“There are times in life when everyone needs to choose which side of history they want to be on. Today, we affirm that we are on the side of those who fight racism,” Luis Roberto Barroso, president of Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court, said in a statement following Tuesday night’s ruling.
Brazil s Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed a Senate investigation of President Jair Bolsonaro s handling of the pandemic to go forward, one of two cases it tackled that could affect the leader s bid for reelection next year. The full court also was weighing the political future of former President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, a potential powerful rival to Bolsonaro. One of the judges earlier ruled he had been unjustly convicted in a corruption case, a decision that effectively reinstated his right to run for the presidency again. The court voted 10-1 Wednesday to uphold Justice Lus Roberto Barroso s order that the Senate should start an investigation of into Bolsonaro s management of the crisis because a required number of senators had sponsored such a call.
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Brazil court greenlights probe of president s virus response
by Mauricio Savarese, The Associated Press
Posted Apr 14, 2021 4:58 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 14, 2021 at 5:14 pm EDT
SAO PAULO Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed a Senate investigation of President Jair Bolsonaro’s handling of the pandemic to go forward, one of two cases it tackled that could affect the leader’s bid for reelection next year.
The full court also was weighing the political future of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a potential powerful rival to Bolsonaro. One of the judges earlier ruled he had been unjustly convicted in a corruption case, a decision that effectively reinstated his right to run for the presidency again.
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