Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro participate 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 former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday invaded the Supreme Court, the Congress constructing and surrounded the presidential palace in Brasilia, in keeping with television images.
In an echo of the Jan. 6, 2021 invasion of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump, Several thousand protesters broke into the buildings and were seen on television smashing furniture contained in the Supreme Court and the Congress. Local media estimated about 3,000 people were involved.
Lots of the protestors dispute the results of the Oct. 30 election through which leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva beat Bolsonaro. The previous president repeatedly questioned, without evidence, the credibility of the country’s electronic voting system, and lots of of his hardcore supporters consider him.
Bolsonaro left Brazil for Florida 48 hours before the top of his mandate.
Lula was in Sao Paulo for the weekend and on a visit to the inside of the state.
Lula’s Staff Party asked the office of the highest public prosecutor to order public security forces to act in containing the demonstrators.
