Brazil's judiciary and election body are under threat from right-wing President Bolsonaro as he prepares for elections in October, a group of lawyers and legal experts tells UN
Bolsonaro's attacks on judiciary and electronic voting system have raised fears he will not accept defeat in October in a race in which he is trailing his leftist rival Lula da Silva.
The group of 80 jurists and legal researchers appealed to the UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Diego Garcia-Sayan, to visit Brazil and report the current attacks on the Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court that oversees elections. "Moreover, without any evidence, Bolsonaro publicly claims that the Brazilian electoral system can be and has been rigged, and has even claimed that the TSE judges are behind such alleged frauds," the petition to the UN rapporteur said.
"The Brazilian judiciary is under siege. Judicial independence in Brazil is facing challenges that are unprecedented since democratisation in the 1980s," it said.
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