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Accusation against four former police directors stood out in Brazil

Brasilia, Jan 25 (Prensa Latina) The accusation of the Federal Police (PF) against four former public order directors, of Highways (PRF), for alleged interference in the 2022 elections, stood out in Brazil in the week ending today.

According to investigations, the highway corporation placed obstacles in the interior of the northeast to prevent the flow of voters to the booths during the second round of the elections that year.

The process includes public servants in strategic positions, such as the former director of Operations of the PRF Djairlon Henrique Moura and the former coordinator of Intelligence Adiel Pereira Alcântara.

Along with the former director of Intelligence of the Highway Police Luis Carlos Reishak Junior and the former substitute head of Intelligence Rodrigo Cardozo Hoppeos, the four are accused of the crimes of disobedience, prevarication, restriction of the exercise of the right to vote and participation by omission in the attempt to abolish the Democratic Rule of Law. In August, the PF had already requested the prosecution of the former director of the PRF Silvinei Vasques, who was in preventive detention for almost a year.

The investigation had access to alleged documents, including a so-called heat map, which would show the regions with the highest concentration of votes in the first round of the 2022 election for the then candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, of the Workers’ Party.

According to the PF, the image was used by Vasques’ leadership to set up possible blocking points.

Such information is contained in a document that justifies the arrest of the corporation’s former CEO on August 9, 2023.

The Supreme Federal Court (STF) ordered the police, on November 1, 2022, to open the blocked federal highways.

A report released on the occasion by the PRF reported that there were fences on 227 federal highways.

Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF, decided to adopt the necessary measures to unblock the roads.

Bolsonaro, a candidate from the Liberal Party who sought re-election at the time, remained silent after his failure at the polls and continued without admitting the result or calling, as is customary, the elected head of state.

In the first round of the referendum on October 2, 2022, Lula won with 48.43 percent of the valid votes, while the former far-right ruler had 43.20 percent.

Since none of the politicians managed to obtain an absolute majority of votes in this dispute, that is, more than half of the valid votes (excluding blank and spoiled votes), as required by law for being elected, they contested the runoff.

In a very close manner, the son of the working class won the second round again with 50.90 percent against the 49.10 of the ex-military man.

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