In an act organized in São Paulo by right movements and religious groups, protesters watched on Sunday (7) the speeches defending guidelines such as freedom and amnesty to former President Jair Bolsonaro and the impeachment of the Supreme Court (STF) Minister Alexandre de Moraes. 
Gathered at Avenida Paulista, the group also spoke out against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in some cases asking for his arrest.
The governor of Sao Paulo, Tarcisio de Freitas, spoke in an incomplete celebration for the absence of Bolsonaro’s right to come and go. He also said that what is seen is the construction of a series of narratives by the left in conducting the trial around January 8, to incriminate the former president.
“What they have is a single denunciation of an employee, changed six times in three days, under coercion. Democracy cannot be destroyed under the pretext of rescuing it.”
For the governor, the amnesty has to be wide and for all involvedin favor of national tradition for pacification, “so we can get rid of the PT”. Freitas also reaffirmed the rise of an anti-System right, of a state Pro-Businessfrom a right that is not ashamed to go to the streets and classified the performance of Alexandre de Moraes as “tyranny”.
Event React Brazil, on Paulista Avenue. Photo: Paulo Pinto/Agência Brasil
Pastor Silas Malafaia made a long speech defending the unity of the right around Bolsonaro. He quoted what he considers an injustice of the case against the former president and abuses on the part of the Supreme Court and Minister Alexandre de Moraes, who characterized as a “dictator” and someone who disrespects political and religious freedom. He recalled the seizure of his prayer notebooks ten days ago, when he had returned from a trip to Portugal and denied being dialogue with foreign authorities.
At the end of August, Malafaia was the target of search and seizure determined by Moraes. According to the Attorney General’s Office, the pastor would have acted as a “advisor and assistant of coercion actions” promoted by Bolsonaro and federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP).
Former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro was the last to speak. She made several religious speeches and recalled the difficulty in seeing her husband without being able to leave home, not being able to perform services and having to deal with a disproportionate vigilance, she said.
During the event, protesters extended a giant flag of the United States. The act was also attended by the governor of Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema, senators and deputies.
Event React Brazil, on Paulista Avenue. Reuters/Amanda Perobelli/Prohibited Reproduction
Acts in defense of amnesty and Bolsonaro also occurred in other capitals. In Rio de Janeiro, the demonstration occupied a block of Copacabana and gathered the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Claudio Castro, former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro and the federal deputies of PL Alexandre Ramagem, Luiz Lima, Eduardo Pazuello, Hélio Lopes and Clarissa Garotinho.
Ramagem is a defendant in the trial of the coup attempt, in progress in the Federal Supreme Court. In his speech at the time, he defended broad, general and unrestricted amnesty to those who attached democracy on January 8, 2023.
Sovereignty
This September 7, more than 45,000 people accompanied the civic-military in the Esplanade of Ministries in Brasilia.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the mayor of the deputies, Hugo Motta, and executive ministers were present at the event. Part of the public manifested itself with shouts of “without amnesty” and “sovereignty is not negotiated”. The same happened in the acts of the cry of the excluded, unions and social movements across the country.
The main theme of the official parade of September 7 this year was precisely the sovereignty of the country. Other thematic axes were the 30th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP30) to be held in Belém in November and the new Growth Acceleration Program (PAC). THE President Lula’s pronouncement In a national radio and TV network also dealt with these themes. Lula called Brazilians who work against Brazil “traitors of the homeland”.
This year, the celebrations of September 7-Brazil’s Independence Day takes place amid the bilateral crisis between Brazil and the United States, caused by US President Donald Trump, who imposed commercial tariffs on Brazilian products to press the country in favor of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is being tried by the STF for attempted coup and abolition of the democratic rule of law. Judgment Must be completed this week.
