Roque Citadini stated that the attempt to classify the failure of the Globo debate as a serious assault on the democratic state did not prosper. He said that the actions of the TSE and the STF were legal and reasonable and that, without judicial intervention, the event would have favored one candidate over another. Citadini attributed the failure to the withdrawal of Flávio Bolsonaro, who, according to him, avoided debating with a young and unpredictable candidate and preferred to speak without contestation. He suggested that Bolsonaro might have withdrawn because he remembered a municipal debate in which he fainted on stage. The author praised President Lula for participating in a long online conversation with a large audience and criticized Globo for entrusting its central event to a candidate, pointing out what he described as a historic laxity of the network. He stated that the failure did not compromise democracy nor had a dictatorial character and that the campaign revealed the profiles of the candidates, including what he said the withdrawal of Bolsonaro would have obscured. #Debate #Eleições #Democracia (translated)