The political scene in Brazil seems to be starting after the convulsions generated by the followers of Jair Bolsonaro who blocked the streets as a form of protest against the victory of Lula da Silva.
While the representatives of both candidates prepare to meet to initiate the transitionthe court warned that those who continue to protest “will be considered criminals”.
The head of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Brazil, Alexandre de Moraes, said that the the result of Sunday’s elections is “indisputable” and assured that those who do not accept it and commit “undemocratic acts”.
Moraes added that those who protest will be considered criminals, in reference to protests taking place across the country by Bolsonist groups who they ask not to recognize the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
“The voters, for the most part, are democrats. They democratically accepted the result of the elections. Those who do not accept it, those who practice undemocratic acts, they will be treated like criminals“Moraes said, according to the newspaper Folha of San Paolo.
The president of the TSE attended the first session of the court today after Sunday’s ballot, in which Lula prevailed from 50.9% to 49.1% over the current president, Jair Bolsonaro.
Roadblocks, which reached more than 250 across the country on Tuesday, lost strength after Bolsonaro, who did not openly acknowledge his electoral setback, ask his followers to stop their actionsalthough he supported the protests elsewhere.
“I want to appeal to you: unlock the streets (…) Other demonstrations taking place all over Brazil (…) are part of the democratic game. Feel comfortable,” he said in a video posted in his Twitter account.
In total, there were 74 partial or total blockades in eight of Brazil’s 27 states this Thursday, according to the Traffic Police (PFR) report, which reported 862 scattered manifestations.
The transition between Lula and Bolsonaro begins
Lula’s vice president, centrist Geraldo Alckmin, will meet in the afternoon with the chief of staff of the outgoing president, Ciro Nogueirain the capital, Brasilia, sources from both teams told AFP.
The meeting will also be attended by the president of the Workers’ Party (PT), Gleisi Hoffmann, and the coordinator of Lula’s government program, Aloizio Mercadante, according to CNN Brasil.
Alckmin, former governor of São Paulo, is in charge of coordinating the transition with the outgoing government, with which he has already had contact in the uncertainty caused by Bolsonaro’s two days of silence after his narrow defeat in the presidential ballot on Sunday.
The first meeting between the representatives of both sides will take place after the street protests of supporters of the far-right president against the victory at the polls of the 77-year-old leader of the PT, who he will take power on January 1st.
Thousands of Bolsonarists gathered in front of the barracks in the main cities of Brazil on Wednesday to ask Military intervention against the narrow defeat of his candidate.
In addition to the proceedings of the day before, road blocks occurred since Sunday, which caused problems for the transport of goods and movement.
In the Janeiro River, there are only a few dozen people left Thursday morning in front of a military barracks, some of them after spending the night in tents.
“I think we will have a communist dictatorship” under Lula, Jessica dos Santos Ferreira, 31, told AFP. “He is a thief, he is not an example for my 11-year-old son,” added this black businessman willing to stay in his place. until the arrival of the alleged military intervention.
Source: AFP and Télam
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