The President of the Constitutional Council (CC), Lúcia Ribeiro, assures that the decision on the election results will, first and foremost, respect the law, considering the current political and social situation.
"Given this context [of turmoil], in this judgment, perhaps the most important thing is not the words, but the clarity of the figures. This is my perception," he said.
Lúcia Ribeiro believes that the essence of the final ruling on the General Elections of October 9 should focus, for the most part, on explaining or arguing the results.
"The emotional charge of what you're experiencing out there can't influence you too much"
"We are preparing for this. In fact, the fact that we're opening it up is to allow people to enter the CC, [so that the general public] can understand the methodology that's being used," he said.
"Ignorance about how the CC arrives at certain data/numbers is what creates the greatest concern in society," he said.
What's more, he anticipated that the protests would not influence the body's position. He says he is working with a certain calm.
"If this [social] pressure influenced or influences the way we decide, that would be serious. But I think that in the exercise of a function as a judge, you have to have a little distance so as not to influence the result," he noted. "Then the result would not reflect the electoral truth."
In an interview with the private channel STV, Ribeiro said that the district courts never had the competence "or pseudo-competence" to annul any election.
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