The president of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court), Alexandre de Moraes, denied this Friday (9) the dissemination of propaganda by the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government about the Auxílio Brasil card.
Moraes said that there is no urgency in the measure and that information about the functioning of the card can be given after the election period.
The government wanted to run the campaign between September 20 and October 20. The first round of elections is scheduled for October 2.
The aid is one of Bolsonaro’s bets in the reelection race.
The government’s Communications Secretary, André de Sousa Costa, had argued to the TSE that the idea was to “mitigate doubts/fears about the suspension of receiving the benefit for not receiving the new card, as well as informing beneficiaries about the features of the new card”.
According to the request made to the TSE, the campaign would have the function of informing that the old card “will continue to function normally until the new one is received”.
The Elections Law prevents institutional publicity from public bodies in the three months preceding the elections. Therefore, the government has to ask the TSE to release campaigns that fall within the exceptions of this law.
Under the same argument of violation of electoral rules, the TSE has already vetoed statements by the Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, with praise for Brazil’s work in the fight against Covid.
At the end of August, Moraes even banned advertising about the bicentennial of Independence, but claimed that there was an error in publicizing the decision and went back, releasing the piece.
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