It is said that in some places, the policemen assigned to remove the roadblocks of the truck drivers joined the protests. Already on election day, the traffic police tried to prevent Lula da Silva’s supporters from voting.
The loser of Sunday’s presidential election in Brazil, a right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro the left has still not admitted its defeat Luiz Inácio to Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro has remained silent since the election result was decided, even though many of his allies have urged him to admit defeat. In a completely exceptional way, Bolsonaro has also been silent on social media, where he is usually very active.
Jair Bolsonaro is expected to comment on the situation on Tuesday, but there is no certainty about this.
Bolsonaro’s son, senator Flavio Bolsonaro has messaged his father’s supporters on social media in an ambiguous way that he should not give up now.
– We will not give up our Brazil. God is in control, he tweeted.
– Father, I’ll be with you no matter what happens, he wrote in another Twitter message.
Attempts have been made to stir up doubts about the election results from abroad. of The New York Times (you will switch to another service) including, for example, the ex-president Donald Trump’s worked as an advisor Steve Bannon has urged Bolsonaro not to concede defeat in a “rigged election”.
According to the magazine, an influential Brazilian social media influencer also lives in Florida Rodrigo Constantino has tweeted to his 1.4 million followers that the election result is fake.
Some of the supporters demand a coup
Many supporters of Bolsonaro refuse to accept the election result and claim it was fake.
Truck drivers and other supporters have blocked traffic across the country with several hundred roadblocks. For example, traffic to the airport of the big city of São Paulo was blocked.
Some of the protesters have called for the soldiers to seize power in Brazil.
The traffic police assigned to remove roadblocks have removed many of the roadblocks, but in some places the police are said to have moved to support the protesters.
– We have received an order to support you, one of the police officers said to the demonstrators by publishing the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo by video (you switch to another service).
In another country, the traffic police is said to have announced that drivers who block roads will not be fined.
The right is Folha de S. Paulo magazine (you will switch to another service) ordered the traffic police to remove the roadblocks immediately and set the chief of the traffic police a fine that increases hourly. Chief of the traffic police Silvinei Vasquesia is also threatened with dismissal and detention.
Owners of cars that are blocked have also been threatened with hourly increasing fines.
According to the information received from the traffic police of Folha de S. Paulo, the police chief intends to follow the order to dismantle the roadblocks and a large number of them would have already been removed. O Globo magazine (you switch to another service) reports that the rest of the locks are also going to be dismantled during Tuesday.
Some traffic police tried to interfere in the election on voting day (you switch to another service) by making it difficult for voters living in Lula’s support areas in Northeast Brazil to get to the polls by setting up roadblocks.
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