Brazil’s Bolsonaro tells supporters that Lula da Silva will return to the presidency “only with fraud”

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – After former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva accused Bolsonaro on Sunday of “genocide”, the incumbent president retaliated by speaking to supporters outside the Alvorada Palace.

He warned of the ease with which fraud is possible with electronic ballot boxes and said that Lula da Silva – whom he referred to only as “nine-fingers” – will return to the presidency “only with fraud”

“Only in the case of fraud, will ‘nine-fingers’ (Lula da Silva) be able to come back. But if Congress agrees and enacts the law we are asking for, we will have printed ballots.”

In direct criticism of the Worker’s Party (PT), the president said that he is “preparing Brazil” and that one of the measures to change the country will be the appointment of a new Justice for the STF (Supreme Court), which should take place next month with the resignation of Justice Marco Aurélio.

“Where was Brazil going until the ouster of Dilma? Imagine if she continued. What if I had died in the stabbing in 2018? Who would be in my place? Now we have to fix a lot of things and we will fix them,” he expounded.

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