Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office for eight years

ON JUNE 30TH Brazil’s highest electoral court barred Jair Bolsonaro, who was the country’s president until the end of 2022, from holding public office for eight years. A populist of the far right who had little respect for democracy, he has now been cast out of electoral politics for undermining public trust in the integrity of Brazil’s voting system. In July last year he invited dozens of foreign diplomats to the presidential palace to present them with a slideshow in which he asserted that Brazil’s voting machines were unreliable. Mr...