Thursday, August 13th 2026 - 22:34 UTC
“You saw that they falsified my party affiliation. The system will try everything to stop me, but it will not succeed, because God is in command,” Flávio Bolsonaro said
Brazil's Liberal Party was unable on Thursday to file Senator Flávio Bolsonaro's presidential candidacy with the Superior Electoral Court, after the electoral system recorded him as a member of a different party. The deadline for submitting candidacies expires on Saturday at 7pm.
A certificate issued by the court at 11:13 on Thursday listed the senator as a regular member of the Missão party since Wednesday, August 12, and recorded his departure from the Liberal Party on the same date. Official records had until then shown continuous membership of the PL since November 2021. The discrepancy blocked the registration procedure. The campaign's legal team also reported that the party temporarily lost credentialed access to the platform used to submit data to the court.
The Superior Electoral Court said in a statement that the change did not result from a breach of its affiliation system but from improper use of the tool by someone holding access credentials, and opened an investigation. The certificate itself specifies that affiliation data is entered into the Filia system under the parties' own responsibility and that the record carries “only a relative presumption of veracity.”
