Bolsonarista Radicals Invade Congress and Supreme Court in Brazil

January 8, 2023

Supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro took this Sunday by force the National Congress, breaking the blockade carried out by the Military Police and the National Security Force at the Esplanade of the Ministries in Brasilia.

Brazil’s Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, affirmed this Sunday that “the will of the radical Bolsonaristas who have invaded the National Congress “will not prevail”. In the international media there is talk of an attempted institutional coup.

The bolsonarista demonstrators do not accept the electoral result and invaded an area of the Congress and when they were heading towards the Government Palace they were dispersed with tear gas bombs by the police in Brasília.

Minister Dino authorized the use of the National Force in the security of the capital in view of the threat of violent actions.

This week the Minister of Justice, Flavio Dino, warned that the pro-Bolsonaro camps calling for a coup d’état would be dismantled in front of military barracks.

The president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco, warned that a sector of the Senate was invaded and that the governor of Brasília guaranteed measures by the security forces. The PT deputy, Alencar, denounced the connivance of the governor of Brasília.

Local media report that the newly elected president, Lula da Silva was evacuated to a safe place, far from the center of Brasília.

The president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco qualified the actions as “anti-democratic acts” and informed that he is in conversation with the governor of the Federal District, Ibaneis Rocha, who communicated “that he is concentrating the efforts of the entire police apparatus to control the situation”.

“The security forces of the Federal District, in addition to the Legislative Police of the Congress, are committed to the action. I vehemently repudiate these anti-democratic acts, which must be urgently submitted to the rigor of the law,” Pacheco wrote on his Twitter account.

The chief minister of the Presidency’s Social Communication Secretariat, Paulo Pimenta, affirmed that the demonstration comes from “a coup-plotting minority” that incites violence.

“We are sure that the majority of the Brazilian people want unity and peace at this time so that Brazil can move forward. This demonstration is from a coup minority that does not accept the result of the elections and that preaches violence. A violent minority, which will be treated with the rigor of the law,” he tweeted.

The bandits mostly dressed in yellow and green T-shirts and Brazilian flags, attacked some vehicles of the Legislative Police, which ensures the security of the Congress.

In their march towards the Congress, the demonstrators also smashed the protection barriers and armed with sticks confronted the City Hall agents, who tried to contain them without success.

Source: Cuba en Resumen