Brazil's foreign ministry on Wednesday criticized an invitation extended by the country's top electoral authority to invite the European Union to send observers for the elections in October.
Brazil has not in the past had its elections "evaluated by an international organization of which it is not a member," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
The Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) told Reuters on Monday it had invited the European Union for the first time to observe the general election this year, when far-right President Jair Bolsonaro will seek re-election.
