They do not recognize Lula da Silva’s victory at the polls and call for military intervention to remove him. Da Silva, outside the capital, has met urgently with his ministers.
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Hundreds of followers of Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have invaded this Sunday the headquarters of the National Congress in a demonstration calling for a military intervention to overthrow President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The group, which defends coup thesesovercame a police barrier and climbed the ramp that gives access to the roof of the buildings of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
Hundreds of radical bolsonaristas They have been camped out in front of the Army Headquarters, in Brasilia, since the day after the elections on October 30, in which Lula defeated Bolsonaro.
In addition, supporters of Bolsonaro have also invaded the Planalto Palace, the seat of the Executive, and the Supreme Court. The windows of the headquarters of the Judiciary were broken by the demonstrators, who They already occupy the buildings of the three powers in the country. The Police are using riot gear, the Brazilian press reports.
On the other hand, the Brazilian chain O Globo, citing sources from the Federal Supreme Court, assures that they have managed to recover the headquarters of the Supreme Tribune, and that some of the assailants are being held in the building’s garage.
Calls for military intervention to overthrow Lula
Lula He is not in Brasilia today because he is visiting the interior of the state of Sao Paulo, but he has met urgently with his ministers to discuss the situation. Bolsonaro is out of the country, and has not yet ruled on what appears to be an orchestrated attack from the extreme right.
Patrols of the Legislative Police, which ensures security in Congress, were attacked and the barriers that cordoned off the headquarters of the three powers They were destroyed by the protesters.
The anti-democratic acts call for the military intervention of the Armed Forces to overthrow Lula, who assumed the Presidency of Brazil on the 1st.
The radical Bolsonaristas They do not recognize Lula’s victory at the pollswho in the second round of October 30 won with 50.9% of valid votes compared to 49.1% for Bolsonaro.
The police from the Legislature and the National Security Force, an elite group of agents from different states, launched tear gas to unsuccessfully disperse the protesters, who carried Brazilian flags and some were armed with sticks.
International support for Lula has begun to arrive through social networks: the Spanish state, Chile and Argentina, among others, have condemned the assaults and have offered their solidarity to the Brazilian president.
The invasion this Sunday by supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro of the headquarters of the Executive Branch of his country, the Supreme Court and the National Congress evokes the assault on the US Capitolwhose second anniversary was fulfilled two days ago and where five people died.
Source: Eitb
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