Earlier this week, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, a candidate for his own succession, accused local radio stations of boycotting his election spots and demanded as compensation that those of his competitor Lula cease to be broadcast. on these same antennas. The Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) rejected this appeal.
This decision was made by the TSE “ [faute de] credible documentation» and fault of « evidence», reports O Globo, the Rio newspaper. The president of the TSE suspects the candidate of having wanteddisrupt the second round of the electionpresidential election and asks the courts to investigate a possible electoral offence. ” Bolsonaro’s campaign seeks unrest four days before election» ,title on his side Folha de Sao Paulo.
The far-right president assures that his team will appeal. This Friday, Jair Bolsonaro has an appointment with former left-wing president Lula da Silva for a final televised debate before the ballot.
In the United States, a candidate for the Senate accused of not applying the opinions he defends
Abortion remains one of the main campaign issues in view of the mid-term elections scheduled for 8 November. The subject has emerged since the Supreme Court revoked the federal right to voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) at the end of June. In Georgia, this theme takes a personal turn for the Republican candidate for the Senate. Herschel Walker is publicly opposed to abortion, even in cases of incest or rape. Except that two women assure that he pushed them to terminate their pregnancy. A first testimony had been made public at the beginning of the month.
This Wednesday, a second woman claims that Herschel Walker pressured her to have an abortion, relate The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and several national media. The facts allegedly took place in 1993: this woman, who testified with her face hidden at a press conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, explains that she was having an affair with Herschel Walker and that after several years, she ended up by getting pregnant. ” She said Walker was upset and pressured her into having an abortion, which she didn’t want to do», underlines the washington post.
Herschel Walker denies these accusations, but this new testimony comes as he is neck and neck in the polls with his Democratic competitor, in a key state for control of the Senate, recalls the capital daily. However, the first case did not have a lasting impact on voting intentions, analyzes an editorialist of the same newspaper. “ If Walker narrowly loses the election, Republicans can only blame themselves“For having chosen a candidate with a sulphurous past, he writes. ” But if he wins, it will prove once again that activism forgives many sins.»
Haiti: the White House does not rule out intervention without UN approval
According to information from Miami Heraldthe multilateral force envisaged by Washington – and which may not be supported by the United Nations Security Council – would be “mostly made up of police“, but also of”some soldiers“, assures the number two of American diplomacy. The White House ensures that the scale of the operation and the number of men sent there would be decided “beginning of November“.
However, the United States has still not found a country to carry out this intervention, underlines the Florida daily. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken begins a two-day visit to Canada this Thursday (his first official visit to the country), in particular to discuss this issue and try to convince the Canadian authorities to lead a possible multilateral force. . A delegation sent by Ottawa is this week in Port-au-Prince to discuss the crisis in Haiti, also specifies theMiami Herald.
Bolivia: sixth day of strike in Santa Cruz
The city and its region, the economic engine of the country, are governed by the right, opposed to the government in place. Protesters and local business leaders are calling for a new census next year. The census takes place only every ten years, but when it is not updated, the electoral weight of the region and the budgets allocated by the State to local authorities are not updated either.
In response to the strike that is paralyzing Santa Cruz, the Minister of Economy accuses local employers of being “putschist», report the newspaperLos Tiemposwhich specifies that the government suspended from this Thursday the exports of soybeans, milk or beef, to avoid possible shortages at the local level.
Mexico candidate for the 2036 Olympics
Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced this on Wednesday, reportsEl Financiero. But even within the Mexican government and the camp of President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, this is not unanimous.
The president of the commission that controls the federal budget for sport in the country, Ana Gabriela Guevara (who is also a former world champion in athletics), assures that this risks putting the country in debt, and that historically, the Olympic Games are not necessarily an economic success for the organizing countries, underlines the sports dailyesto.