Envoy Brian Mier from Brazil with the analysis of how Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court changed their perspective on the question of observers in Venezuela’s democratic presidential elections, after it would ignore the request from the country on June 3rd. teleSUR
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00:00On June 3rd, Brazil's Superior Electoral Court announced that it would not heed Venezuela's
00:05request to send electoral observers to monitor the upcoming presidential elections,
00:09but things have changed. Here is our envoy from Brazil, Brian Meyer, with the analysis.
00:15Today, Brazil's Superior Electoral Court surprised a lot of people by announcing that it's sending
00:21observers to Venezuela's presidential election, which will take place on July 28th. It surprised
00:27people because just last month, the court had announced that it wasn't going to send anyone
00:32this time, but some things have changed since then. On June 3rd, which was the day that the
00:38court released a statement that it wasn't going to send the observers, the presidency changed hands.
00:44Alexandre de Moraes, a figure who's drawn the ire of Brazil's far right for years,
00:51stepped down as president and was replaced by Supreme Court Minister Carmen Lucia.
00:57It looks like she's agreed to the request that was initially made in May, and coming on the heels
01:03of President Lula's recent comments in Bolivia that after the elections he wants to invite
01:09Venezuela to return to Mercosul, it's being greeted as good news
01:14that the Brazilian government is respecting Venezuela's democratic rule of law.