Great moment of tension in Brazil after a demonstration by Brazilians close to former President Jair Bolsonaro Centenares who ended up invading the headquarters of the National Congress today in a demonstration calling for military intervention to overthrow President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is currently Travel days in the city of Araraquara, in Sao Paulo.
The group, which defends coup theses, overcame a police barrier and climbed the ramp that gives access to the roof of the buildings of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, and some entered inside the legislative headquarters. The extremists, mostly wearing yellow and green shirts and Brazilian flags, also attacked some vehicles of the Legislative Police, which provide security for Congress.
They also destroyed protection barriers and, armed with sticks, confronted the agents who unsuccessfully tried to contain the entry of the protesters. Lula, who assumed the Presidency of Brazil on the 1st, is traveling this weekend in the city of Araraquara, in Sao Paulo.
Hundreds of radical Bolsonaro supporters have been camped out in front of the Army Headquarters in Brasilia since the day after the elections on October 30, in which Lula defeated Bolsonaro. The camps of the radical Bolsonaristas, which have multiplied in cities throughout the country, began to be dismantled on Friday in Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais, where some disturbances occurred.
On Saturday, the Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, authorized the action of the National Security Force, an elite group of police forces from all over the country, which is mobilized for special missions. Since Lula’s victory in the second round of elections on October 30, with 50.9% of the valid votes against Bolsonaro’s 49.1%, his supporters have gathered outside the Army headquarters.
Before the invasion of Congress, Dino spoke on social networks and said that opponents should wait until 2026, when the next presidential elections are held, just as the current government waited between 2018 and 2022. In a manifesto communicated by the Ministry Justice called an emergency meeting with the security agencies to deal with the demonstrations.
