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Supreme Court rebukes alleged threats of coup

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The Federal Supreme Court (STF) may open an investigation against President Jair Bolsonaro after his allegations of fraud in the country’s electronic voting system without any evidence. The intention behind it would be to halt the government’s anti-democratic rhetoric in the country’s highest court.This is the perception of some of the Court’s Justices, who regret that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (STE) has been slow to react to the president’s statements and threat.This reaction was triggered by a story published on Thursday by newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo. It says that on July 8 the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira (Progressive Party, PP of Alagoas), received a message from the Minister of Defense, Walter Braga Netto, through a political interlocutor, warning that there would be no elections if there were no printed ballots - a kind of receipt to be kept after the elector casts his vote electronically, a redundance to allegedly avoid fraud.One of the justices told Valor that the STF is not afraid of a military coup. On condition of anonymity, he argues that unlike in 1964 the military do not have today the support of the institutions to promote intervention in the democratic state. In that year, the generals had the support of the majority of public opinion and the press. They also had the support of other countries to establish the military dictatorship in Brazil. This time, the military have no support from any segment of civil society, says the justice.He laments, however, that the TSE was slow to adopt measures against those threats because some other members of the Court believed that pressure against Mr. Bolsonaro would open more space for inconsistent and inconsequential statements.The newspaper’s story adds that on the same day Mr. Bolsonaro told his supporters in front of the presidential residence "either we make clean elections in Brazil, or we won’t have elections," suggesting the polls are usually not fair. Mr. Bolsonaro talked about it again on Thursday again, stating that he cannot admit that "half a dozen...

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