The day after the second round, the TSE (Supreme Electoral Court) blocked 27 Telegram groups advocating the military coup and urged supporters to hold demonstrations in support of the cause. Each group acted in one unit of the federation. He had a total of 153,273 followers.
After the election, the court will continue to monitor such groups to prevent anti-democratic demonstrations from disturbing the country’s environment for the diplomacy and inauguration of elected president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).
Lula’s graduation from TSE will be held on 19 December. He will take office on January 1 and is expected to take the presidential wing from Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
Avoid the “Brazilian Capitol”. The court’s action aims to prevent a move in Brazil similar to what happened in the United States, where the Capitol was occupied by supporters of Donald Trump, who wanted to thwart Joe Biden’s diplomacy.
Telegram, meanwhile, was the app used by truck drivers to stage protests against Lula’s victory on the country’s highways. Many messages contained fraudulent content, and some groups were disabled by the platform itself.
Groups banned from Telegram declared a “general strike across Brazil” yesterday.
What did the groups say? The first message was: “Attention, enter your respective states’ groups and organize your concentrations. Highways first, then road access, and finally downtown”.
Also, according to the organizers of the groups, “The deadline for the action of the Armed Forces is 72 hours, we have no politicians, parties or funds. We, the people, nor our homeland will not be outraged! Communism is here, no ?!”.
Another message published was “We will not allow our country to be handed over to communism, we will take to the streets together with the truck drivers to demand military intervention, we will not take a step back”.
Continuing performance. The structure established by TSE to expel extremists from the election scene will always continue to function.
The expectation of court sources is that the profiles will be further blocked until the opening and the planning of anti-democratic demonstrations will be abolished.
A lawyer will also be on duty. In the PGR (Attorney General’s Office), the order is the same: keep watching extremist groups to avoid threats to institutions.
In addition to the graduation and opening ceremony, PGR is also focusing on the November 15 holiday. The tendency for Bolsonarist groups to try to take to the streets to advocate the shutdown of the STF and military intervention.
Although Lula won the election, PGR and TSE sources say groups advocating anti-democratic ideas, most of them Bolsonaro supporters, will remain in the limelight this year and throughout the PT term.
source: Noticias
