Brasilia, (EFE) .- Thousands of people have gathered this Wednesday in front of the doors of barracks in Sao Paulo, Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro, to demand a “military intervention” against the electoral victory of the progressive leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The rallies, in which protesters proclaim that they “authorize” the president Jair Bolsonaro to call the Armed Forces, they were summoned through social networks. Those calling are the far-right groups that support the president and do not recognize Lula’s victory at the polls.
The mobilizations have been called parallel to the protests by truckers who block roads with the same objective since last Monday. These demonstrations have lost strength after Bolsonaro himself disavowed them and determined that the government begin the transition process with Lula’s team.
According to the Highway Police, this Wednesday, a holiday in Brazil for the Day of the Dead, there were 167 trucker blockades, out of the nearly 500 that existed last Monday, the day after the elections.
In one of these blockades, in the São Paulo city of Baruerí, the truck drivers refused to lift the protest, but were repressed by the police with tear gas, which generated small incidents, without victims so far.
The truckers’ protest, however, has lost intensity since Bolsonaro, leader of the extreme right, finished admitting his defeat and determined that the government begin the transition process with Lula’s team, which is scheduled for this Thursday.
Bolsonaro ruled on the results of the elections on Tuesday, about 45 hours after the official count ruled the victory of the progressive leader by a very narrow margin of 1.8 percentage points.
While Bolsonaro was silent, his most extreme sympathizers began the movement that demands a military coup from the Armed Forces, which “closes” Parliament and the Supreme Court but keeps the current ruler in power.
However, the coup plotters were disavowed by Bolsonaro himself in his statement, despite the fact that he said that the “popular movement” was “the result of indignation and the feeling of injustice for how the electoral process unfolded.”
Even so, Bolsonaro affirmed that “peaceful demonstrations will always be welcome,” but stressed that his methods “cannot be those of the left, which have always harmed the population, such as the invasion of property or the destruction of heritage,” and stressed that no one can prevent “the right to come and go.”
