Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro get component in a protest to ask for federal intervention outside the Army headquarters in Brasilia, on November 2, 2022.
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Supporters of Brazil’s previous significantly-suitable President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday invaded the Supreme Court docket, the Congress making and surrounded the presidential palace in Brasilia, in accordance to tv photographs.
In an echo of the Jan. 6, 2021 invasion of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump, Numerous thousand protesters broke into the buildings and have been found on television smashing furnishings inside of the Supreme Court docket and the Congress. Community media believed about 3,000 people today had been included.
Numerous of the protestors dispute the consequence of the Oct. 30 election in which leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva conquer Bolsonaro. The previous president frequently questioned, with out evidence, the believability of the country’s digital voting method, and a lot of of his hardcore supporters believe him.
Bolsonaro remaining Brazil for Florida 48 hrs in advance of the finish of his mandate.
Lula was in Sao Paulo for the weekend and on a excursion to the interior of the state.
Lula’s Personnel Celebration requested the business office of the top public prosecutor to get community protection forces to act in containing the demonstrators.