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Superior Electoral Court President, Alexandre de Moraes in his crusade against online disinformation, has gained another adversary, tycoon Elon Musk. Image: EVARISTO SA / AFPSuperior Electoral Court President, Alexandre de Moraes in his crusade against online disinformation, has gained another adversary, tycoon Elon Musk. Image: EVARISTO SA / AFPhas emerged as one of the most powerful and polarising people in Brazil by probing far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro’s alleged attacks on democracy.
The immensely powerful judge, who also heads the Superior Electoral Tribunal , is hated by the far right, which accuses him of censorship and abuse of office.There was little in Moraes’s background to hint he would become a conservative nemesis. “Legal expertise has played a part in his meteoric rise, but what put him on the Supreme Court, and 99 percent of his career, is politics. He’s a political animal,” constitutional law expert Antonio Carlos de Freitas told AFP.Supreme Court insiders call him a pragmatist with a gift for engaging in dialogue with various players, including the military.During Bolsonaro’s administration , Moraes ordered investigations of several of the president’s allies.
“Bolsonaro’s camp has found a favorite enemy in Moraes, who has dealt them their biggest defeats at the Supreme Court and blocked the spread of fake news,” Freitas said.
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