With a surprising attitude, thousands of people with Brazilian flags marched this Wednesday to different cities in Brazil to request it the army kills the democratic processseize power and prevent the hiring of the PT leader, Lula da Silva, who just won the presidential election with no known objections.
Dissatisfied with the defeat of President Jair Bolsonaro, protesters cling to a dubious reading of the Constitution which in no way allows the disruption of democracy. But people didn’t seem very concerned about those details.
With the same climate that the Bolsonarian truck drivers tried to create, who blocked routes across the country, to movement that gradually ceased this Wednesday, Protests outside the barracks raised doubts about the transparency of the elections and openly called for a coup to seize power.
One of the largest marches was held in Ibaruera in this city of San Pablo. There is the Southeast Military Command. People, many wrapped in the Brazilian flag, chanted slogans stating “I authorize the intervention” and there were posters with that message printed and not handwritten, which would indicate a important advance preparation.
Against Lula
In the center of Rio de Janeiro, under heavy rain, another large march protested against the elected president: “Lula, thief, your place is prison”, according to videos broadcast by Brazilian television.
Questions in the elections and insults to Lula da Silva were part of the speeches more aggressive throughout the campaign held by the outgoing president. The former president was jailed for more than 500 days accused of passive corruption, with a sentence of 12 and a half years in the Lava Jato trial.
That ruling was removed by the Supreme Court and in technical terms was the head of the PT freed from guilt which allowed him to resume his political career. But Bolsonaro insisted that he is still guilty and that “a friendly judge saved him and that is why he was able to compete for the presidency”.
“PT out, federal intervention” posters in both São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro affirmed a similar bill. The same has been seen in other cities such as Espirito Santo, where there are also military units.
There was no immediate reaction from the Armed Forces. Lula’s victory was immediately recognized by all the institutions of the country, including the commanders of the Armed Forces, as well as by the governors of Bolsonaro such as those of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, where the largest marches took place.
Images from the Brazilian press showed this midday in Rio de Janeiro a crowd with yellow clothes, clothes that identify with Bolsonarism, which occupies an alley of Avenida Presidente Vargas, the main one of that city. The marches were organized via the Internet.
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“We want federal intervention because we ask for our freedom. We don’t allow a thief to rule us,” said Angela Cosac, a 70-year-old woman quoted by the agency. AFP. It was next to a sign that said “Armed Forces SOS”.
Protests also in the capital Brasilia, with thousands of demonstrators outside the military headquarters calling for “civil resistance” against the election results. “Respect,” said one of the signs.
The background of these demonstrations would be the insistent claim of military dictatorship made by Jair Bolsonaro in his government, himself a former army captain who has never been questioned by his followers.
For the rest, Brazil lacked a civil trial against the military regime such as the one carried out by the Radical Party in Argentina. The civilian leaders who followed approved the military amnesty, including the Lula da Silva governments.
The dictatorial regime extended from the March 1964 coup that overthrew Joao Goulart until the same month of 1985 when democracy returned, with José Sarney. On the same dates as the democratic revival throughout the region.
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Source: Clarin
