Politics · Brazil · 3 hrs ago
Alcolumbre condemns campaign attacks and defends Brazil’s electronic voting system
Senate President Davi Alcolumbre criticized campaign attacks in a speech in Brazil on Wednesday.
He said some lawmakers won October’s elections by insulting, lying and making threats instead of presenting proposals.
He cited issues including calls to impeach Supreme Court justices and what he called a lack of important policies for the country.
Alcolumbre defended Brazil’s electronic voting system, saying it was reliable.
He argued that the same system elected many candidates from the opposition PL party in the first round, but was questioned after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the second round.
Opposition figures gradually acknowledged their defeat in the days after the election.
Senate President Davi Alcolumbre defended Brazil’s electronic voting system after opposition figures questioned the result of the presidential election.
He said the same system was accepted when it helped elect a large bloc of lawmakers in the first round.
Alcolumbre said critics challenged the system after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Flávio Bolsonaro in the second round.
He also criticized lawmakers who, he said, campaigned by insulting, lying and making threats.
- Who
- Senate President Davi Alcolumbre defended the electronic voting system against criticism from opposition figures allied with Flávio Bolsonaro.
- What
- He said the system was accepted when it helped elect a large congressional bloc in the first round but questioned after Lula won the second round.
- When
- Wednesday, November 4, 2026.
- Where
- In the Brazilian Senate.
- Why
- Alcolumbre said critics questioned the voting system after the second-round result, despite accepting it in the first round.
Davi Alcolumbre
Bolsonaro-allied opposition
Voting system
Davi Alcolumbre
Alcolumbre said the same electronic voting system was accepted when it helped elect a large bloc of lawmakers in the first round.
Bolsonaro-allied opposition
Opposition figures questioned the system after Lula’s second-round victory.
Election results
Davi Alcolumbre
Alcolumbre said critics raised no comparable objections when Flávio Bolsonaro received most votes for president and the PL won a large congressional bloc in the first round.
Bolsonaro-allied opposition
Opposition figures questioned Lula’s high vote growth between the first and second rounds.
The PL won a large congressional bloc, and Flávio Bolsonaro received most votes for president, according to UOL.
Lula defeated Flávio Bolsonaro; opposition figures later questioned Lula’s vote growth, according to CNN Brasil.
Alcolumbre defended the electronic voting system and criticized lawmakers’ campaign conduct in the Senate.
- Senate president
- Davi Alcolumbre
- Election system
- Brazil’s electronic voting system, described by Alcolumbre as 30 years old
- First-round congressional result
- 120 federal deputies elected from the party of the losing presidential candidate, according to Alcolumbre
- Second-round winner
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
- Date of Alcolumbre’s remarks
- November 4, 2026
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What people are saying
The same electronic ballot box that is 30 years old served to elect 120 federal deputies from the party of the candidate who lost the election.
And when it opened in the second round, the ballot box was no longer any good?
But insults, aggression and threats happened every day.