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Press Release: Defense statement from Antonio Tabet regarding the victory at the TSE The defense of actor, presenter, screenwriter, and comedian Antonio Tabet publicly celebrates the recent and paradigm-shifting victory in the Superior Electoral Court in favor of freedom of criticism, opinion, expression of thought, and religion. In judging the case, the TSE Collegiate overturned the concerning initial decisions made by Minister André Mendonça, which risked direct censorship of absolutely true content, humorous expressions, and, even more alarmingly, prayers and requests for blessings to Our Lady Aparecida. In line with the arguments upheld by this Defense from the beginning, the Electoral Court concluded the obvious; that is, it is not lawful for the State to censor factually true content; it is not lawful to censor prayers and acts of faith; it is not lawful to censor opinions or humor. The corrective action of Justice, expressed in the order to exclude content, should be strictly and exclusively limited to publications that are objectively false. We take this opportunity, in respect for the loyalty of public debate and to leave no doubts, to reiterate that: the legislative initiative to remove Our Lady Aparecida from the status of Patroness of Brazil is not authored or proposed by candidate Flávio Bolsonaro. On the other hand, it is a fact that allies (political and religious) of Flávio Bolsonaro publicly defend and promote such an initiative and, in public and notorious cases, promote attacks against institutions linked to the Catholic Church. The free scrutiny of the network of relationships of public figures is a pillar of democracy and cannot be silenced. Furthermore, let this October, the month of Our Lady Aparecida, be the time for the Brazilian people to make their own judgment. Lucas Mourão André Matheus Rodrigo Rollemberg (translated)

THE DESPAIR HAS HIT! Criminals allied with Flávio Bolsonaro intensify the campaign of religious intolerance against the Catholic Church and African matrix religions following the attacks on Our Lady Aparecida. BRAZIL WITH LULA IN THE FLOW TURN OFF GLOBO DO NOT WATCH THE DEBATE NO MORE COUP (translated)

🚨 URGENT 🚨 Daniela Lima has brought a bombshell on Pulso Político. Everyone needs to share it. The tone around Flávio is no longer campaigning. It is a threat. Flávio claims to be moderate. Yesterday he presented Pablo Marçal as an active part of the campaign. In the live stream with Daniela Marques, his economic guru, the title was holy war. Catholics and evangelicals against each other. Macumba and satanism in the middle of the sentence. Fear as a method. If you thought it was heavy, it gets worse. Allan dos Santos, a fugitive in the United States, convicted of threats, defamation, and slander, attacked a bishop of the Catholic Church. The bishop had asked for mercy from Our Lady Aparecida in the face of gunfire at the CNBB. The response was insults. The Church is already monitoring the attacks on bishops on social media. This is the group. This is the tone. With Flávio's victory, the message goes from live stream to government. Persecution of the Christian faith is not a theory. It’s already in the video. No coup ever again is trending. Lula 1 and 2 is trending too. Three more to go. The weakness is thinking this stops at the election. Don't watch the debate and pretend you didn't see it. Globo goes unnoticed. Flow too. Cármen Lúcia and Merval occupy the scroll. The play is different. Share it. The Brazilian people need to hear this before voting. (translated)

ATTENTION!! It has been 48 hours since the ORGIES of Flávio Bolsonaro with prostitutes were revealed, paid for with CORRUPTION MONEY, and this trash broadcaster has not reported ANYTHING. Absolutely ZERO seconds! In the last 48 hours, Globo: -censored the news of Flávio's orgies -produced a 6-minute segment to defend Flávio and André Mendonça in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida case -censored news that Luciano Huck is Vorcaro's brother -broke its own debate rules to not invite the only candidate who would attack Flávio TOXIC TRASH GLOBO GLOBO CANCER OF BRAZIL (translated)

The decision undermines Dino's efforts for LuIa's benefit‼️ The TSE decided to maintain the removal of posts associating Flávio Bolsonaro with fake news to remove Our Lady Aparecida from the position of patroness of Brazil. The majority of the ministers understood that content that directly reproduces this false information can be excluded, but there was disagreement about the scope of the measure for indirect, critical, or humorous posts. (translated)

It is still necessary to wait for the adjustment for the average vote, but the prevailing thesis is that only objectively false information is prohibited; that is, indicating conduct that was not practiced by Flávio Bolsonaro. For example, it is not possible to state that Flávio Bolsonaro proposed a bill to strip Nossa Senhora Aparecida of the title of patroness of Brazil (this is materially false), but it is permissible to say that Flávio Bolsonaro's allies defend this measure. It is allowed to say that Flávio is close to people who think this way and that sectors of the Catholic Church have expressed concern about this, etc. (this is objectively true), and it is possible to say, for example, that one does not trust Flávio Bolsonaro to protect the status of the patroness of Nossa Senhora Aparecida (this is an opinion, therefore not subject to the Byzantine criterion of truth or falsehood). Tomorrow, with the expected adjustments to the average vote, I will talk more about the subject. But the press needs to be alert because it is reporting incorrectly about the results in certain excerpts and headlines. (translated)

Mendonça adjusted his vote at the TSE and released the post by Antonio Tabet. It was not a conversion. It was a calculation. He gave the symbol so that the thesis would not die in the plenary: criticism is allowed; saying that Flávio wants to revoke Aparecida's title, as a fact, remains false. (translated)

The Jornal Nacional showed that André Mendonça backed down on his decision to censor Antônio Tabet's post. In other words, by doing this, Mendonça admitted that Flávio Bolsonaro and his allies wanted to remove the title of Our Lady Aparecida as the patroness of Brazil. (translated)

ATTENTION As my intuition has said from the beginning: we will win! May Our Lady Aparecida pray for us. (translated)

I was just acting in two simultaneous trials; possibly the two most viral electoral cases of 2026: Nikolas vs. ICL (the "lindão" case) and Flávio Bolsonaro vs. Antonio Tabet (the Nossa Senhora Aparecida case). I gave an oral argument in the Nikolas case and we won by majority in the TRE-MG (we will publish a note with details soon). In Tabet's case, I am cautiously optimistic, the current score is 3 to 2 to uphold the injunction of Minister André Mendonça. Two votes are still needed. (translated)

🚨 Journalist Miriam Leitão REVEALED on @GloboNews that the information previously given by colleague Maria Cristina Fernandes, that the Bolsonaro family was preparing a proposal to remove Our Lady Aparecida as the patroness of Brazil, was not Fake News. So? Will Flávio Bolsonaro also sue her? The truth is that time will INNOCENT everyone and Brazil will discover who the true LIARS are. (translated)

Pastor Victório Galli, former federal deputy and former advisor to ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, defended on this Wednesday (30) the bill he authored that proposed to strip Our Lady of Aparecida of the title of patron saint of Brazil, obtained in 1930. The statement was made in an interview with UOL. "What harm is there in a bill like this that was authored by me being brought to the floor? The House of Deputies is a resonance house of the people, it is where discussions happen, it is where things are spoken about, that’s why it’s a parliament. The word parliament comes from 'parler,' it’s about talking, it’s about discussing things. So, I don’t see anything wrong with this matter," Galli said. (translated)

Nunes Marques and Dias Toffoli accompany André Mendonça and vote to maintain the removal of posts with the fake news that Flávio Bolsonaro had removed the title of Patroness of Brazil from Our Lady Aparecida. Cueva diverged in part. Score so far: 3 to 1 in favor of removal. (translated)

Two days after Fux suspended his order in the case of the false threat to Our Lady of Aparecida, Flávio Dino called on the Federal Police to investigate a supposed "wave" of attacks on religious images. We checked, one by one, the 11 records he gathered. There is a case from 2025, cases with already identified authors, and an investigation that the police had concluded before the decision. In another case, the store owner expressly stated that it was not a matter of religious intolerance. There are at least two cases with strong indications of schizophrenia. Dino compiled these episodes without presenting a historical series that shows an increase in attacks or a connection between their perpetrators. The report shows what exists in each case and presents important context regarding the 2018 elections. (translated)