Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president-elect, is expected to be sworn in for the third time next Sunday. However, supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, the outgoing president, want to avoid him at all costs, claiming that his goal is to avoid a communist government for Brazil. As an alternative to the progressive leader they propose a pseudo military dictatorship, waiting for the elections to be repeated.
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The context. On October 30, Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silvaof the Workers’ Party, defeated his opponent, the still president Jair Bolsonaro, of the Liberal Party, in the general elections.
- From the first moment, Bolsonaro’s supporters do not recognize the results.
- They demand that the elections be repeated.
- Given the tight victory, they allege that there was electoral fraud, especially in the electronic voting system, despite not having been able to prove it in any way.
- International observers accept the scrutiny as valid.
And meanwhile… Even on the day of the vote, thousands of supporters of the former liberal president take to the streets of the main Brazilian cities to protest against Lula’s victory. They cut roads, set up barricades and burn vehicles.
- Despite the fact that Bolsonaro asked that the roads be stopped, he considers the protests “legitimate”.
- Brazilian police detain a Bolsonaro supporter at the Brasilia airport. The man acknowledges having planned two attacks so that the authorities would be forced to declare a state of siege and thus prevent the investiture ceremony.
- A few days later, a group of agents found 40 kilos of explosives in a field just 35 kilometers from the area where Lula was going to take office.
- It is now being investigated whether these two events are related.
¿Why is it so important? Bolsonaro’s supporters want to prevent Lula from taking office next Sunday.
- They say they do it with the aim of preventing communism from reaching Brazil.
- His plan, according to Eduardo Saldaña, Co-director of El Orden Mundial, explains, is to implant a pseudo military dictatorship in the country until the elections are repeated.
The other face. In a few days, Lula da Silva will be sworn in as President of Brazil for the third time. His government is expected to shift to the center right, compared to his previous terms, because he will have a conservative vice president, Gerardo Alckmin. Alckmin was his opponent in the previous legislature.
What can we expect? Despite the arrests, Bolsonaro’s supporters plan to continue the protests with the intention of preventing the inauguration at all costs. According to Saldaña, those who are willing to go all the way “are a minority, but a very dangerous one.”
For this reason, the co-director of El Orden Mundial does not rule out the possibility that between now and Sunday there will be an assault on the institutions, as happened with the seizure of the Capitol in the United States, almost two years ago now.
They have even gone so far as to call on the Armed Forces to join their cause and their protests.
For his part, the man who will be Lula’s new Justice Minister has already announced that, after the latest violent incidents, taking urgent measures against them will be one of the first measures carried out by the new government.
Source: Lasexta
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