translated from Spanish: Brazilian business leaders criticize Bolsonaro’s “authoritarian adventures”

Hundreds of business leaders representing large Brazilian banks and companies on Thursday published a letter titled “Elections will be respected,” in which it would be a criticism of President Jair Bolsonaro’s recent threats against the 2022 elections.
“The principle of a healthy democracy is that elections are held and that all those involved accept their results,” the letter read.
Bolsonaro has repeatedly said that if the printed ballot system is not adopted, the 2022 elections will not take place. On Wednesday, he threatened to react to a Federal Supreme Court investigation into his conduct “acting beyond the Constitution.”
Without quoting the president, the letter read: “Brazilian society is a guarantor of the Constitution and will not accept authoritarian adventures.”
Among the signatories of the letter were Roberto Setubal and Pedro Moreira Salles, large shareholders and co-presidents of Itaú, Luiza and Frederico Trajano, majority shareholders of Magazine Luiza, Pedro Passos and Guilherme Leal, shareholders of Natura, Carlos Jereissati, shareholder of the mall operator Iguatemi and bankers such as the head of Credit Suisse in Brazil, José Olympio Ferreira and the president of Lazard , Jean Pierre Zarouk.
The letter was also signed by economists, diplomats and representatives of civil society.
On Wednesday, Bolsonaro was enraged by an STF investigation into unfounded allegations that Brazil’s electronic voting system is vulnerable to fraud.
His detractors claim that Bolsonaro, like former US President Donald Trump, is sowing doubt should he lose in 2022. It has already threatened not to accept the result if the system is not changed.
In an interview with an evangelical radio station, Bolsonaro said he wants to emulate elections in neighboring Paraguay, where electronic voting and printed ballots coexist.
He said STF judges Alexandre Moraes and Luis Roberto Barroso are making “unreasonable” decisions and repeated that electronic voting is vulnerable to fraud. He also declared that Moraes’ decision to investigate him in a fake news investigation is “absurd.”

Original source in Spanish