The Brazilian government decided to reinforce security throughout the country in the face of information that groups of radical Bolsonaristas have called for new demonstrations for this Wednesday, such as those that ended on Sunday with the assault on the headquarters of the three powers in Brasilia.
The announcement was made by the Minister of the Presidency, Rui Costain statements to the press after both the Federal Attorney General’s Office and the Prosecutor’s Office requested the Supreme Court to adopt measures to prevent possible terrorist attacks and violent acts and vandalism.
“We determined measures to reinforce security throughout the country due to the fact that invitations to new demonstrations are circulating. For this reason, we adopt a precautionary position regarding the security of the Esplanade of the Ministries (the avenue where the main public buildings are located) and in cities throughout the country”, Costa stated.
The reinforcement was decided upon confirming that in groups shared by the Bolsonaristas on social networks they would publish calls for demonstrations at 6:00 p.m. local time (21:00 GMT) this Wednesday both in Brasilia like in cities like sao paulo, Rio de Janeiro Y Belo Horizonte.
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The calls, with the places where the concentrations will be held, indicate that they are demonstrations for the “regain of power”.
The most radical Bolsonaristas, who do not recognize the victory of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the presidential elections in October and defend a coup to overthrow it, staged a violent attack on the headquarters of the Presidential, Congress and the Supreme Court on Sunday.
Nearly 1,500 followers of the former president Jair Bolsonaro They have been arrested for the acts of vandalism on Sunday, which caused extensive and serious damage to the three buildings, after the police, in a belated reaction, managed to evict them.
In its petition for urgent measures to the Supreme Court, the Government Attorney General’s Office alleges that the so-called “National Mega Demonstration for the Resumption of Power” summoned by the radicals constitutes a “new attempt to threaten the democratic rule of law”.
The government body urges the Federal Supreme Court to order the public security forces of the federal government and regional administrations to adopt the necessary immediate measures to prevent invasions and road blockades.
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The Lawyer affirms that the State “it has to be safeguarded and protected”, for what is necessary “Avoid both the abuse of the right of assembly, used as illegal and unconstitutional for true acts that threaten democracy.”
It also requested the timely and momentary restriction of the right to demonstrate and the imposition of fines on individuals and companies that offer logistical and financial support to the protests called.
The body also asked that the Supreme Court order the arrest in flagrante of all those who disobey its decision and that it authorize the blocking of the groups on social networks used to call the demonstrations.
Lula da Silva “was not elected by the people”, says Bolsonaro
The former Brazilian president had released a post on his social networks on Tuesday night with a video that says that President Lula da Silva “He was not elected by the people”but by the judges of the Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court.
The publication, just two days after the coup attempt by his followers, spread like wildfire on the Internet, but Bolsonaro himself quickly deleted it. It was his first explicit statement of support for electoral fraud theses after the serious events on Sunday.
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The video in question showed a fragment of an interview with prosecutor Felipe Gimenez, from the state of Mato Grosso do Sulopenly Bolsonaro.
In his statements, he said that Lula’s victory was a fraud and that voting in the electronic polls was unreliable, a phrase repeated over and over again by Bolsonaro and his followers and likewise denied hundreds of times.
The video was accompanied by the following caption: “Lula was not elected by the people, he was chosen by the STF and the TSE”in reference to the two courts that the former president chose a long time ago as his main enemies.
“Lula was not chosen by the Brazilian people. Lula was chosen by the electoral service, by the STF judges and by the TSE judges, because if it were an election of the people, the people would have power over that election, power over the process of counting the votes.said the attorney. The conspiracy theory of rigged elections is one of the central pillars on which the Bolsonaro movement currently stands, and the fuel that moved the camps that until a few hours ago called for a coup against the military in dozens of cities in the whole country.
Although the video lasted very little on the air, it was long enough to feed his most radical followers.
After the coup assault on Sunday at the headquarters of the three powers, Bolsonaro already gave a lukewarm response; Although he distanced himself from the violent actions, he equated them to other protests on the leftwhich in no case had the dimension of a threat to the democratic order.
With information from EFE and the media
