Convulsion in Brazil: firm condemnation and call for a multilateral commitment

Save Democracy, made up of a group of professionals from Latin America, specialized in the study and diagnosis of democratic systems and processes, and whose objective is to collaborate in the strengthening of democracies, expressed a energetic repudiation of last Sunday’s coup attempt in Brazil.

Chaired by political scientist Graciela Romer, it expressed its solidarity “with the Brazilian people, with its new government led by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and with its representative and republican institutions,” he said in a statement this afternoon.

“This attack on democracy and the rule of law perpetrated in Brazil, unprecedented in its virulence and greatness, It is another warning sign of the regressive threats and authoritarian tendencies that the region faces,” he added.

Here are other points in the statement:

• “These threats and drifts affect not only the normal play of political institutions and the management of a government which, in this case, has just begun, but also democratic life as a whole, the protection of individual guarantees, the exercise of freedom of expression and journalistic activity, and the task of civil society organizations in a rarefied climate due to polarization, the actions of fanatic minorities and violent expressions“.

• “These facts, added to the multiple actions of erosion of democracy that are multiplying on the continent, lead to the establishment of a renewed multilateral commitment to protect and strengthen its basic principles and their full force”.

There are other Argentine members of Salva Democrazia such as the former Vice Chancellor Roberto García Moritán, the Auditor General of the Nation Jesús Rodríguez, the President of the Union of Industrialists, Daniel Funes de Rioja and the President of the Argentine Council for International Relations, José Octavio Bordon.