President-elect Lula da Silva's election team sues President Jair Bolsonaro, his running mate and two of his sons for abuse of power and attacks on Brazil's voting system
Bolsonaro has been mostly absent since losing the elections in October and attended a few inauguration ceremonies.
The two lawsuits, filed in the electoral court on Thursday, seek to ban the four men from running for office in future. The second lawsuit accuses Bolsonaro of power abuse by illegally granting financial benefits to citizens during the campaign with the "clear intention of gaining votes and, therefore, influencing the choice of Brazilian voters, so as to harm the smoothness of the election."Bolsonaro and his vice-presidential candidate, retired army general Walter Braga Neto, narrowly lost the election.
Last month, the head of Brazil's electoral authority rejected a request from Bolsonaro and his political party to annul ballots cast on most electronic voting machines, which would have overturned the October 30 election, saying it's "bizarre and illicit".
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