(Bloomberg) -- A majority of judges on Brazil’s top electoral court voted to declare ineligible to seek or hold public office for a second time on Tuesday, ruling that the former right-wing president abused his power during last year’s independence day celebrations.
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Five of the court’s seven judges have voted in favor of barring Bolsonaro, bringing the trial to an end. The decision won’t add to the eight-year ban Bolsonaro received in June, when the same court ruled that he had broken election laws by spreading false claims about the country’s electronic voting system during a meeting with foreign ambassadors.
But it will put another hurdle between him and a potential political comeback. Even if an appeal of the first ruling succeeds, a second ban would remain in effect.
In this trial, the court weighed allegations that on Sept. 7, 2022 — just a month before the presidential election — Bolsonaro purposefully used official independence celebrations to campaign, constituting an abuse of his political and economic power.
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