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Brazil’s far-right candidate Renan Santos to challenge legal restrictions on his campaign
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Brazil’s far-right candidate Renan Santos to challenge legal restrictions on his campaign

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Brazilian far-right presidential candidate Renan Santos said he would appeal a ruling restricting his campaign.
  • Supreme Electoral Court Justice José Antonio Dias Toffoli barred Santos from debates, online campaign advertising and public financing, citing the late registration of 16 campaign-related social media profiles.
  • Santos has about 4% support in recent polls, well behind Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, who each have more than 30%.

Renan Santos says a Brazilian court decision restricting his presidential campaign is “absurd” and will be challenged. The Mission party candidate faces an immediate ban on participating in debates, publishing electoral propaganda on social media and receiving public campaign financing.

Santos criticized the ruling by José Antonio Dias Toffoli, a member of both Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Court and Supreme Court. He accused the justice of playing a political role and linked the decision to his own criticism of Toffoli over alleged ties to a banker jailed in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud case.

Toffoli said Santos failed to register 16 social media profiles with the Supreme Electoral Court on time. Brazilian electoral law requires campaign accounts used online to be registered in advance so authorities can monitor political advertising.

absurd

— Renan SantosSantos’s description of the court decision restricting his campaign.

The ruling took immediate effect but still must be considered by the other members of the court. Santos said he did not know what would happen to his candidacy. “If my candidacy is brought down, I will return to the side of the activists and continue mobilizing people,” he said, adding that he was surprised by how far his campaign had progressed.

Santos has proposed developing an atomic bomb in Brazil and declaring a state of emergency in areas controlled by drug traffickers. Recent polls put him at roughly 4% of voting intentions, far behind President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, who each exceed 30%.

If my candidacy is brought down, I will return to the side of the activists and continue mobilizing people

— Renan SantosSantos’s response to uncertainty over whether his candidacy will survive the ruling.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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