Tue Dec 6, 2022 – 12:53 pm EST
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(WND News Center) — For the thirty-second consecutive day, millions of Brazilians are on the streets of cities throughout the nation in perhaps the largest pro-democracy protests in history, contending left-wing presidential challenger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s declared victory over conservative populist President Jair Bolsonaro was fraudulent.
Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court announced November 29 that the certification ceremony of Da Silva, a member of the Workers Party, will take place at 2 p.m. on December 12. The inauguration is scheduled for January 1.
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The following day, however, Bolsonaro filed a petition with Brazil election authorities formally contesting the results, alleging some voting machines malfunctioned and that any votes cast through them should be annulled.
A former vice president of the Regional Electoral Court, Sebastião Coelho, in a November 20 speech called for the arrest of Supreme Court Chief Justice Alexandre de Moraes for pressing forward with certifying the election.
“More than 80 percent of judges in Brazil, at first and second instances, do not agree with
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