Lula condemns Elon Musk’s criticism of the Brazilian Justice

Lula condemns Elon Musk’s criticism of the Brazilian Justice

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, condemned this Wednesday that “a businessman who never produced anything”in reference to the tycoon Elon Muskcriticize decisions of the Justice of Brazil and even says he is willing to breach them.

“We must decide if we want a democratic world” or “if we are going to allow xenophobia and far-right extremism to coexist, which now has the luxury of a businessman who has never produced anything speaking ill of Brazilian Justice,” Lula said in a public event, in clear reference to Musk, although without mentioning him by name.

The owner of the social network so “dictatorial”.

For these messages, published since last weekend, the owner of the old Twitter has been investigated by the Brazilian Justice, which also wants him to explain the contempt for decisions that ordered X to remove content that incites hatred from its platform. and spread false information.

Lula assured this Wednesday that he is determined that Brazil be “a democratic and civilized country”, in which “No one be persecuted for what he thinks”but in which Justice must be fully respected.

In the midst of this controversy unleashed by Musk, representatives of

The document sent to the court argues that X Brazil “has no competition” to decide on publications, since its function is limited to “marketing and promotion” of the company in the country, as well as “other related services and businesses.”

Judge De Moraes described the request as an attempt to “litigate in bad faith” and stated that they do not exist “doubts about the full and comprehensive legal, civil and administrative responsibility of X Brazil, as well as that of its legal representatives before the Brazilian Justice.”

The sudden criticism of Brazil’s justice system made by Musk has been interpreted in sectors of Brazilian politics as a kind of support for the extreme right led by the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022), especially in the face of the municipal elections. next October.

Musk has had close relations with the former president for years and in other messages on the network X has also accused De Moraes of having maneuvered in electoral justice to favor, in the 2022 elections, the now president Lula, who in those elections He defeated Bolsonaro precisely.

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Source: Gestion

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