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Chaos in Brazil: The army and supporters of Bolsonaro attack the Parliament

2023-01-08 22:25:47Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Chaos in Brazil: The army and supporters of Bolsonaro attack the Parliament
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Brazil in chaos a week after the inauguration of the new president, Lula, for his third term in office.

Supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who have long opposed the return of the Left Workers' Party to power, today occupied the Planalto Palace, the seat of government and the Supreme Court in the capital Brasilia.

The former president has been absent from the public debate for some time and has been limited to posting a series of messages on Twitter regarding the results of his mandate.

In fact, he accepted the transition but denied its legitimacy when he went to Lula's inauguration on January 1.

Bolsonaro and former Vice President Hamilton Mourao did not hand over the duties directly to Lula and his deputy, Opus Dei veteran Gerardo Ackim, the moderate soul of the Brazilian left, effectively opening a crisis of legitimacy.

No clear invitation, but for days thousands of supporters of pro-Bolsonaro groups, most of them military, have camped outside barracks across Brazil demanding military intervention against the Left.

Faced with the rejection of the armed forces and whose new leaders were chosen by Lula, today a military group of Bolsonarian ultras arrived from the army headquarters marching in the Piazza dei Tre Poteri, where the supreme court, the presidency and the congress (parliament) are located.

The Parliament seat was the first to be attacked. Later, images that appeared on Twitter showed that Bolsonaro's supporters had even reached beyond the threshold of the presidential palace.

Rodrigo Rangel, a well-known Brazilian political analyst, and Alejandro Alvarez, a journalist and reporter specializing in Latin America, compared the Bolsonaro attack with the events on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021 in the USA.

The same matrix, the populist right. The same objective, the denial of an election result. The same result, the mortification of a democracy plagued by internal fractures.

The strikers' identifying symbol is the green and gold jersey of the Brazilian national soccer team, adopted by the Bolsonarians as a collective identifier.

The police responded to the protesters' attacks by using spray and tear gas.

As a senator for Rio Grande do Sul, former Vice President Mourao spoke today, defending the results of the Bolsonaro government in Veja, describing Lula's executive as old and revanchist and also citing the fact that many Bolsonarians are calling for the political overthrow of Lula by force:

"Unfortunately, part of the population cannot accept that the solutions of the past do not fit the present. Thus, they are beginning to demand that the Armed Forces solve a political problem, not a military problem."

The Brazilian right controls a relative majority of votes in the House of Representatives and the Senate and has increased support since 2018.

Lula is today attacking police officers at the scene - condemning their lack of action when crowds turned violent.

"The police didn't do anything, they just let the protesters in," he says.


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