An American election observer and former Democratic chair of the Federal Election Commission has used social media to blast the front runner in Brazil’s upcoming election while decrying alleged Russian online meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections.
Former FEC Commissioner Ann Ravel, who was in Brazil as a neutral observer of the most recent stage of the Brazilian presidential election, used social media to blast the likely winner of the upcoming election as a “would-be dictator.”
[Also read: Obama knew about Russia election meddling, did nothing: Trump]
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Would-be Dictator https://t.co/CgySZncV0Z via @nybooks…depressing- for country and people I love
— Ann Ravel (@AnnMRavel) October 14, 2018
What’s more, she wrote on Twitter that Jair Bolsonaro’s election would be “depressing” for the people of Brazil. He now leads in the race by double digits.
While on the FEC up until last year and after, Ravel pushed warnings about Russian meddling. Last week she retweeted a story that blasted the GOP for not properly funding protection for U.S. elections.
Also last week she posted photos of her election monitoring in Brazil.
But this week she blasted the front runner and populist Bolsonaro who leads former Sao Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad, 59 percent to 41 percent.
Very sad. We are on the verge of this in the United States. https://t.co/Y4Dra7kgBJ
— Ann Ravel (@AnnMRavel) July 18, 2018
Her critical tweet, playing off a New York Review of Books column, said, “Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Would-be Dictator https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/10/12/jair-bolsonaro-brazils-would-be-dictator/ … via @nybooks…depressing- for country and people I love.”
