Brazil’s top election authority, the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), suspended the presidential campaign of outsider right-wing candidate Renan Santos on Monday for allegedly using “unregistered” social media and other online resources in the campaign.
\n\nSantos condemned the suspension as “absurd” and stated that he will file an injunction seeking relief against the ruling. Other Brazilian presidential candidates have publicly expressed their support for Santos over his suspension by the TSE.
\n\nSantos, a 42-year-old politician, is one of 13 candidates running for president of Brazil in the October elections. He is the nominee of the right-wing Mission Party. Santos is also one of the founders of the Free Brazil Movement (MBL), an organization largely credited with organizing protests against the government of socialist former President Dilma Rousseff in the mid-2010s.
\n\nAccording to Brazilian outlets, Supreme Court Justice José Antonio Dias Toffoli — who is the current head of the TSE — suspended Santos and his vice presidential running mate Arnoldo Medina’s campaign on the grounds that the campaign allegedly failed to disclose and report multiple websites, blogs, social media platforms, and messaging apps that were being actively used by the campaign.
\n\nPer Jovem Pan, the suspension bans Santos from participating in…
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