The process, which is to be completed on January 1 with Lula’s inauguration, started. In the country, the dispute marks the step after the call of Jair Bolsonaro to the lifting of roadblocks.
Le Monde with AFP
The teams of the elected president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and the outgoing head of state, Jair Bolsonaro, must meet Thursday November 3 in the afternoon to start the process of passing powers in Brazil, where The contestation of the victory of the ex-president of the left marks the step.
Many roadblocks were lifted after the outgoing president on Wednesday, out of the far right, to unlock the roads. The number of dams went from 250 in the country Tuesday during the peak, at 74 Thursday morning in eight states (out of twenty-seven), according to the motorways police, which also identified 862 various demonstrations.
Jair Bolsonaro, who only recognized his defeat on Tuesday half-word, also supported the “legitimate demonstrations”. Wednesday, thousands of Bolsonarist demonstrators went to military buildings of eleven states to request an intervention from the army to prevent the return to power of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) after his victory on the thread, Sunday.
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At Sao Paulo, thousands of Bolsonarists demonstrated at the cry of “federal intervention right away!”, In front of the military command of Sudeste, noted an AFP-TV journalist. A similar demonstration in front of the army headquarters in Brasilia brought together several thousand protesters, according to an AFP photographer, some chanting “civil resistance!”. Same scenario in Rio de Janeiro, where thousands of demonstrators sang in front of the military command: “Lula, thief, your place is in prison!”, According to an AFP-TV journalist. Nazi greetings were also filmed during demonstrations in the southern state of Santa Catarina. In Rio de Janeiro, only ten people left in a barracks left.
The vice-president of Lula, centrist Geraldo Alckmin, was to find in the afternoon the director of the cabinet of the current head of state, Ciro Nogueira, in Brasilia to initiate the transition. Gleisi Hoffmann, president of the workers’ party, from which Lula comes, and the program coordinator of the old metallurgist, Aloizio Mercadante, also had to participate in the meeting, according to CNN Brasil.
m. Alckmin, former governor of Sao Paulo, is responsible for coordinating the passage of powers with the outgoing administration, with which he has already had contacts, but the silence that Mr. Bolsonaro observed for two days after the announcement of his defeat Has cast doubt on the smooth running of the process. The former paratrooper ended up giving his downstream to his teams responsible for the transition, without however mentioning the name of Lula nor congratulating him with his victory.